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Huxley was born on June_22, 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary_Augusta_Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen_regnant Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom.
While Huxley saw eugenics as important for removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool as a whole, he believed that races were equal, and was an outspoken critic of the eugenic extremism that arose in the 1930s.
Huxley was a critic of the use of race as a scientific concept, and in response to the rise of fascism in Europe was asked to write ''We_Europeans''.
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Huxley was the first Director-General of (An agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts) UNESCO and a founder of the (additional info and facts about World Wildlife Fund) World Wildlife Fund.
While Huxley saw eugenics as important for removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool as a whole, he beleived that races were equal, and was an outspoken critic of the eugenic extremism that arose in the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s.
Huxley was a critic of the use of (A contest of speed) race as a scientific concept, and in response to the rise of (A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)) fascism in Europe was asked to write We Europeans.
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 Julian Huxley - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 – February 14, 1975) was a British biologist, author and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures.
Huxley was born on June 22, 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.
Huxley wrote two books critical of genetics in the Soviet Union (which he twice visited), which was dominated by Lysenkoism, a pseudoscientific doctrine which states that acquired characteristics can be inherited.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 – February 14, 1975) was a British biologist, author, humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures.
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London, England, UK) is a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the...
Huxley was born on June 22, 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Augusta Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen regnant Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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 Sir Julian Huxley --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Sir Julian Huxley with the skull of an elephant, 1967.
Julian, a grandson of the prominent biologist T.H. Huxley and the oldest son of the biographer and man of letters Leonard Huxley, was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, …
Sir Julian Huxley, who was one of the best representatives of such an effort, claimed that the entire universe is in a process of evolution, which, however, has different aspects, viz., physical, biological, and social.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975)was a British biologist and author.
He was a brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, his father was Leonard Huxley, andhis paternal grandfather was the biologist T.
Huxley coined the terms " mentifacts ", " socifacts "and " artifacts " to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own,spanning over generations.
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Leonard Huxley (December 11, 1860 - 1933) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) writer and (A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)) editor.
After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce (said to be related in some way to (King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)) Robert the Bruce), and had two further sons.
The younger of these was the (A biologist specializing in physiology) physiologist (English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)) Andrew Fielding Huxley.
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The grandson of the famous biologist T. Huxley (1825-95), and brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley studied at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, receiving his zoology degree in 1909.
Huxley was appointed professor of zoology at King's College, London, in 1925 but resigned two years later to allow more time for research.
In 1946 Huxley was appointed as the first director-general of the newly founded United Nations Economic and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), during which time he travelled widely and identified the growing problems of population expansion and environmental destruction.
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 Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Huxley family, descended from Normans who settled in England after the Battle of Hastings.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, British biologist and author, son of Leonard
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, British physiologist and biophysicist, son of Leonard
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Leonard Huxley (December 11, 1860 - 1933) was a British writer and editor.
Their four children included the biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley and the writer Aldous Leonard Huxley.
After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce (said to be related in some way to Robert the Bruce), and had two further sons.
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In 1916, Huxley returned to England, serving during the last year of the First World War as a staff lieutenant at the Italian General Headquarters.
During World War Two, Huxley organised a number of sessions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1945 attended the Moscow Conference of World Scientists.
Huxley also served as executive secretary of the preparatory commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) and was its director general 1946-48.
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 Guide to the Julian Sorell Huxley Papers, 1899-1980
Julian Sorell Huxley, the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and great-nephew of Matthew Arnold, was born June 22, 1887.
This inheritance would prove both a joy and a burden, for while Julian Huxley achieved great renown as a scientist and popularizer of science, he was plagued, like his grandfather, by serious and debilitating attacks of depression.
Moreover, the content is substantive, chronicling the immense variety of Huxley's interests and the influence which he exerted in the fields of science and culture, and includes letters to Huxley as well as drafts and carbon copies from him.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887 — 1975) was a British biologist and author.
He was a brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, his father was Leonard Huxley, and his paternal grandfather was the biologist T.
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Also born on this date in London, on June 22, 1887, was Sir Julian Sorell Huxley.
Julian served as secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-42), and president of the National Union of Scientific Workers (1926-29).
Huxley published a number of works in which he continues his famous grandfather's advocacy of Rationalism, including Religion without Revelation (1927), The Uniqueness of Man (1941), The Humanist Frame (1962), and so on.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was born June 22, 1887, in London, England.
His father, Leonard Huxley, master of Charterhouse School and later an editor, encouraged his children Julian, Trevenen, Aldous, and Margaret to live up to the achievements of their grandfather, the famous evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Julian traced his thinking in many fields to this influence of T. Huxley maintained by his father.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley 1887–1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley.
Also, he edited T. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (1935), The New Systematics (1940), and The Humanist Frame (1962).
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 Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley --  Encyclopædia Britannica
English physiologist, cowinner (with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles) of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
English physiologist and biophysicist, who received (with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Sir John Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the chemical processes responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibres.
Huxley's vigorous public support of Charles Darwin's evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname “Darwin's bulldog,” while his organizational efforts, public lectures, and writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was a British biologist and author.He was a brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, his father was Leonard Huxley, and his paternal grandfather was the biologist T. Huxley.
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The grandson of the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and brother of the writer Aldous Leonard Huxley, Julian Huxley was born in London and was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
As an educator, he was associated with a long list of scientific and academic institutions and societies.
Huxley was one of the most highly visible scientists of the mid-20th century, popular as a radio and television panelist and as a lecturer.
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He was director of studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1952 to 1960, when he became professor of physiology at University College, London.
He is the half brother of Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley.
He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with A. Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles for analysis of the electrical and chemical events in nerve cell discharge.
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1887-1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley.
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Thomas Henry Huxley, United KingdomBritish biologist, supporter of Charles DarwinDarwin and inventer of the term 'agnosticism'
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HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts
Huxley's copy of 'Drugs and the Mind' by Robert S de Ropp, Victor Gollancz, London, 1958, cloth bound.
Huxley's interest in the subject was stimulated by his brother Aldous's study and use of drugs.
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley fut un biologiste britannique et auteur, qui doit son renom autant à sa carrière de scientifique qu'à ses efforts de vulgarisation.
Petit-fils du zoologiste Thomas Henry Huxley et frère de l'écrivain Aldous Leonard Huxley, Julian Huxley est né à Londres le 22 juin 1887 et fut éduqué au Balliol College, à l'Université d'Oxford.
Huxley enseigna la biologie au Rice Institute de 1914 à 1916, apès quoi il regagna l'Angleterre pour participer à l'effort de guerre.
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