A physiologist who coauthored intracellular recordings of action potentials in giant axons. Recording inside the axon against an external reference showed the membrane potential during excitation rather than only the external electrical signal.[ref]
Action Potentials Recorded from Inside a Nerve Fibre by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley. 1939, intracellular recording in giant axons
Portrait of Andrew Huxley
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Andrew Huxley (1917–2012) was a renowned British physiologist and biophysicist, best known for his work on the nerve impulse and the structure of neuronal membranes. He is most famous for his contributions to the development of the "Huxley model," which describes the mechanism of action potentials in nerve fibers. His groundbreaking research, often conducted in collaboration with Alan Hodgkin, earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963.