1. Hugh Esmor Huxley was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle.
17 Facts About Hugh Huxley
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Hugh Huxley was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge.
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Hugh Huxley worked at University College London for seven years, and at Laboratory of Molecular Biology for fifteen years, where he was its Deputy Director from 1979.
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Hugh Huxley worked on the development of radar equipment during 1943 to 1947, for which he was later honoured a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Hugh Huxley therefore joined Cambridge University to become the first PhD student in a newly formed Laboratory of Molecular Biology, then a small Medical Research Council unit founded by Max Perutz and John Kendrew, who supervised him.
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Hugh Huxley returned to MRC unit of Cambridge in the late spring of 1954.
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Hugh Huxley became the joint Head of the Structural Studies Division of the LMB in 1975, and its Deputy Director in 1979.
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Hugh Huxley was elected member of Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960 and won one of its Royal Medals in 1977 and its Copley Medal in 1997.
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Hugh Huxley was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1971.
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Hugh Huxley received the William Bate Hardy Prize in 1966, Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, E B Wilson Medal of the American Society for Cell Biology in 1983, and the Franklin Medal in 1990.
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Hugh Huxley was conferred the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 1987 for his contributions to molecular biology, notably his classic work in the field of muscle biology.
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Hugh Huxley was a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
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Hugh Huxley was among the 43 scientists and philosophers who signed the BHA letter in March 2002 to Prime Minister Tony Blair deploring the teaching of creationism in schools.
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Hugh Huxley advocated Charles Darwin's birthday as public holiday, and curricular reforms in elementary science education.
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In 1981, Hugh Huxley was named an honorary member of the American Association for Anatomy.
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Hugh Huxley died of heart attack on 25 July 2013 in his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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Hugh Huxley is survived by his wife, Frances, his daughter, Olwen, and stepchildren, Bill, Glenway, and Amy Fripp.