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Hugh Esmor Huxley FRS (born February 25 1924) British biologist. He professor of biology at Brandeis University, in Massachusetts, USA.

He received his PhD from Christ's College, Cambridge. He is most noted for his study of the structure of muscle. To be more precise, the study of myosin and actin molecules in muscle. He was elected a 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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