Editing Andrew Huxley (section)

==Awards and honours==
Huxley, Alan Hodgkin and [[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|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 potential]]s, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a [[central nervous system]].<ref name=":0" /> Eccles had made important discoveries on [[synaptic transmission]].

Huxley was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1955|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."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Copley Medal |url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/copley-medal/ |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=[[Royal Society]]}}</ref> Huxley was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Fielding Huxley |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/andrew-fielding-huxley |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] by [[Elizabeth II|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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Andrew+Huxley&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Huxley |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/46127.html |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> 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.<ref name="WW">{{cite web |title=Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U21370 |website=UK Who's Who online |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U21370 |access-date=7 October 2023}}</ref>

Huxley's portrait by [[David Poole (artist)|David Poole]] hangs in Trinity College's collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trinity College, University of Cambridge|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/located_at/trinity-college-cambridge-5846_locations|publisher=BBC Your Paintings|access-date=12 February 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140511164255/http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/located_at/trinity-college-cambridge-5846_locations|archive-date=11 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>