Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887-1975) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 87
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English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Julian, his younger brother Aldous, and father Leonard
T. H. Huxley with Julian in 1893
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Huxley with his two sons, Anthony and Francis
Juliette Huxley, c. 1929
Huxley lights a cigarette under his grandfather's portrait, c. 1935.Awards
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959-1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.
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