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Andrew Huxley

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British physiologist (1917–2012) and Hodgkin's collaborator on the squid axon experiments that defined the action potential. He built the voltage-clamp electronics himself, then hand-cranked the differential equations on a mechanical calculator over weeks in 1951. He later turned to muscle physiology, where he proposed the sliding-filament theory of contraction. Half-brother to the novelist Aldous Huxley.

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