Portrait of Andrew Fielding Huxley
Date
c.1955
Sitter
Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917 - 2012, British) , Cell biologist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Andrew Fielding Huxley, inclined to and looking right of the camera, dressed in a grey suit, black tie and white shirt.
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012), British cell biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955 and served as its President between 1980-1985. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1973, Croonian Award, 1967, Florey Award, 1982, and Blackett Award, 1984, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1963 for ‘discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane’.
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012), British cell biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955 and served as its President between 1980-1985. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1973, Croonian Award, 1967, Florey Award, 1982, and Blackett Award, 1984, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1963 for ‘discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane’.
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