HUXLEY ON EDUCATION

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...

Hodgkin Huxley Equations

We will see the Hodgkin Huxley equations the experiments as sumptions and analysis De nitions Remember Cable Theory The ecuation for the PASIVE cable are As we know the axon is not passive It has active conductances Let s change the circuit Vout

The Huxley Lecture

Huxley: the devil's disciple

Ever since Leonard Huxley published his father's Life and letters (1900) and P Chalmers Mitchell wrote Thomas Henry Huxley (1900), there has been a steady production of Huxley biographies-one a decade, on average. Most of these are cast in the mould of a traditional historiography, hailing Huxley as the courageous, truth-seeking champion of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selec...

Huxley: evolution's high priest

publications, the opportunity arose to establish Zentralblatter and Handbucher for the various growing medical specialisms; by 1914, 75 per cent of the firm's output was in engineering and medicine and a largish group of German scientists found additional employment as advisers on monthly retainers. Sarkowski provides a gripping account of the dangerous thirties when the firm's Jewish genealogy...