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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2009
The history of research on nerve conduction and muscle contraction shows many interesting parallels not only in the development of ideas about the underlying mechanisms but also in over-emphasis on certain ‘principles’ and in the loss of valid discoveries made at the turn of the century.
* This was the basis of a lecture given by Sir Andrew Huxley at the meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau in 1993.