Andrew Huxley

Definitions of Andrew Huxley
  1. noun
    English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
    synonyms: Andrew Fielding Huxley, Huxley
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    physiologist
    a scientist who studies how living organisms function
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