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Andrew Fielding Huxley

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Andrew Fielding Huxley
Full Name
of the recipient		Andrew Fielding Huxley
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award1963
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withSir John Carew Eccles (33.3%)
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		University College, London, United Kingdom
Place of BirthHampstead, United Kingdom GBR
Date of Birth22 November 1917
Age
at the time of Award		45 years
Place of DeathGrantchester, United Kingdom GBR
Date of Death30 May 2012
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