Andrew Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in which year?
1955
1972
1963
1999
Answer
Andrew Huxley shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for their discovery of the ionic basis of nerve conduction. Huxley and Hodgkin performed experiments on the giant squid axon, and discovered that the action potential in nerve cells is caused by the flow of sodium and potassium ions across the cell membrane.
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