{"id":2403,"date":"2012-06-01T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:38:07","slug":"sir-huxley-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/sir-huxley-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Huxley RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/scientists\/10607.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bbc.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hodgkin and Huxley\" width=\"519\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bbc.png 519w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bbc-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Huxley (right) passed away on May 30th at age 94.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a BBC interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hodgkin\u2013Huxley_model\">Hodgkin and Huxley<\/a> shot in my living room in 1985. Wolpert does an excellent job introducing their work to a broad audience. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/scientists\/10607.shtml\">video<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has a good obituary. It&#8217;s widely known that obituaries are written for famous people well in advance of their passing. Typically they wait until the subject is in their twilight years, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5002356\/associated-press-writes-britney-spears-obituary\">but not always<\/a>. In this case, the subject, Sir Andrew Huxley, outlived his obituary writer, Anthony Tucker, who passed away in 1998.<br \/>\n(Hat tip to MH)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/scientists\/10607.shtml\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Huxley (right) passed away on May 30th at age 94.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a BBC interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hodgkin\u2013Huxley_model\">Hodgkin and Huxley<\/a> shot in my living room in 1985. Wolpert does an excellent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/sir-huxley-rip\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}