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== Awards and honours == Huxley, Alan Hodgkin and John Eccles jointly won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane". Huxley and Hodgkin won the prize for experimental and mathematical work on the process of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Eccles had made important discoveries on synaptic transmission. Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1955, and was awarded its Copley Medal in 1973 "in recognition of his outstanding studies on the mechanisms of the nerve impulse and of activation of muscular contraction." Huxley was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 November 1974. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1975 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1979. He was appointed to the Order of Merit on 11 November 1983. In 1976–77, he was President of the British Science Association and from 1980 to 1985 he served as President of the Royal Society. In 1986 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering then known as the Fellowship of Engineering. Huxley's portrait by David Poole hangs in Trinity College's collection.
== Personal life == In 1947, Huxley married Jocelyn "Richenda" Gammell (née Pease), the daughter of the geneticist Michael Pease (a son of Edward R. Pease) and his wife Helen Bowen Wedgwood, eldest daughter of the first Lord Wedgwood (see also Darwin–Wedgwood family). They had one son and five daughters – Janet Rachel Huxley (born 20 April 1948), Stewart Leonard Huxley (born 19 December 1949), Camilla Rosalind Huxley (born 12 March 1952), Eleanor Bruce Huxley (born 21 February 1959), Henrietta Catherine Huxley (born 25 December 1960), and Clare Marjory Pease Huxley (born 4 November 1962).
=== Death === Huxley died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on 30 May 2012. He was survived by his six children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. His wife Richenda, Lady Huxley died in 2003, aged 78. A funeral service was held in Trinity College Chapel on 13 June 2012, followed by a private cremation.
== Publications == Huxley, A. F., 1980. Reflections on muscle. The Sherrington Lectures XIV. Liverpool.
== Popular culture == Huxley was mentioned in S11 E6 of Archer: "The Double Date".
== See also == Hodgkin–Huxley model Huxley family List of presidents of the Royal Society
== References ==
== External links ==
Andrew Huxley on Nobelprize.org Portraits of Andrew Huxley at the National Portrait Gallery, London Huxley, Andrew. "Andrew Huxley" (Interview). Interviewed by Macfarlane, Alan; Harrison, Sarah. "Physicist discovered key to brain science". The Sydney Morning Herald. The New York Times. 5 June 2012. Watts, Geoff (30 June 2012). "Andrew Fielding Huxley". The Lancet. 379 (9835): 2422. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61056-3. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 22764376.