Huxley on Nature

T. H. Huxley: Man's place in nature

Professor Leone's throw light on the actual scientific problems treated in the passage considered, and as such they are of great help for a reader not closely acquainted with the modern developments of embryology. Dr. Castellani has provided a lengthy introduction which, though occasionally verbose, is of great interest for the student of eighteenth-century embryology. Dr. Castellani, who appro...

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...