Andrew Huxley on evolution
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Andrew Fielding Huxley (19172012)
Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM 1983; Kt 1974; FRS 1955; PRS 1980–1985, MA, Hon. ScD Cantab. Physiologist and Biophysicist. Born Hampstead, London, 22 November 1917. Demonstrator, 1946–50, Assistant Director of Research, 1951–59, and Reader in Experimental Biophysics, 1959–60, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge; Director of Studies, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1952–60; Jodrell Professor 1960–69, Ro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemical & Engineering News Archive
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0009-2347,2157-4936
DOI: 10.1021/cen-v055n038.p003