Squid giant axon
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The squid giant axon is the very large axon that controls part of the water jet propulsion system in squid. It was first described by L. W. Williams in 1909, but this discovery was forgotten until Eng
Squid giant axon
Andrew Huxley
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Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, C
Squid giant axon
…action potential conduction ( E = E o e − x / λ ). In their Nobel Prize-winning work uncovering ionic mechanism of action potentials, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley performed experiments on the squid giant axon, using the longfin inshore squid as the model organism. The prize was shared with John Eccles. The large…
Huxley in 1963