1917 - 2012
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Huxley has received more than 344,598 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Andrew Huxley is the 223rd most popular physicist (up from 261st in 2019), the 712th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 863rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physicist.
Andrew Huxley is most famous for his work on the structure of the muscle fiber and the organization of the sarcomere.
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Among physicists, Andrew Huxley ranks 223 out of 717. Before him are Georg von Békésy, Bertram Brockhouse, Tsung-Dao Lee, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Mihajlo Pupin, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Clifford Shull, John Kendrew, Chien-Shiung Wu, Alexander Prokhorov, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Carl von Linde.
1899 - 1972
HPI: 62.12
Rank: 217
1918 - 2003
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 218
1926 - Present
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 219
1896 - 1966
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 220
1858 - 1935
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 221
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 222
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 223
1915 - 2001
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 224
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 225
1912 - 1997
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 226
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 227
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 228
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 229
Among people born in 1917, Andrew Huxley ranks 46. Before him are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kiro Gligorov, Fernando Rey, Herbert A. Hauptman, Mel Ferrer, and Ko Arima. After him are John Kendrew, Jack Kirby, Leonid Hurwicz, Violeta Parra, Maurice Duverger, and Rodney Robert Porter. Among people deceased in 2012, Andrew Huxley ranks 39. Before him are Kiro Gligorov, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Matilde Camus, Antonio Tabucchi, Dave Brubeck, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. After him are Eduard Khil, Joseph Murray, Sun Myung Moon, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Etta James, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
1917 - 2016
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 40
1917 - 2012
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 41
1917 - 1994
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 42
1917 - 2011
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 43
1917 - 2008
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 44
1917 - Present
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 45
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 46
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 47
1917 - 1994
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 48
1917 - 2008
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 49
1917 - 1967
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 50
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 51
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 52
1917 - 2012
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 33
1930 - 2012
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 34
1919 - 2012
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 35
1943 - 2012
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 36
1920 - 2012
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 37
1925 - 2012
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 38
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 39
1934 - 2012
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 40
1919 - 2012
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 41
1920 - 2012
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 42
1933 - 2012
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 43
1938 - 2012
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 44
1918 - 2012
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 45
Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 712 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), H. Rider Haggard (1856), David Harvey (1935), Banksy (1970), Rosemary Harris (1927), and Edward B. Titchener (1867). After him are Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), John Kendrew (1917), William Oughtred (1574), Kim Cattrall (1956), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), and Thomas Malory (1405).
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 706
1856 - 1925
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 707
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 708
1970 - Present
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 709
1927 - Present
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 710
1867 - 1927
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 711
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 712
1809 - 1892
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 713
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 714
1574 - 1660
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 715
1956 - Present
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 716
1924 - 1992
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 717
1405 - 1471
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 718
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 27. Before him are George Paget Thomson (1892), C. F. Powell (1903), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William Shockley (1910), David Brewster (1781), and Charles Wheatstone (1802). After him are John Kendrew (1917), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Anthony James Leggett (1938).
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 25
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 26
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 27
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 29
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 32
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 33