Portrait of Andrew Fielding Huxley
Date
1985
Sitter
Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917 - 2012, British) , Cell biologist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Creator - Organisation
Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 115mm
width (print): 145mm
width (print): 145mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Andrew Fielding Huxley, looking over the top of half-moon spectacles to the right of the viewer. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket, white shirt and tie.
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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