Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012)

Awarded the Prize “for the discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.”

British physiologist. Huxley was born in Hampstead, London on November 22, 1917. He received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1941, where he was then elected a Research Fellowship taught in the Department of Physiology. In 1960 he became Head of the Department of Physiology at the University College was appointed to a Royal Society Research Professorship in 1969. He was knighted in 1974 appointed a member of the Order of Merit in 1983. Huxley died on May 30, 2012 at Cambridge.