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Andrew Huxley

1917 - 2012

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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

Among physicists, Andrew Huxley ranks 223 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Andrew Huxley ranks 46Before 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 39Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 712 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Andrew Huxley ranks 27Before 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).