| Julian Huxley  AKA Julian Sorell Huxley
Born: 22-Jun-1887
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 14-Feb-1975
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Biologist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Evolutionary biologist Military service: British Army (WWI) Father: Leonard Huxley (son of Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 11-Dec-1860, d. 2-May-1933)
Mother: Julia Arnold Huxley (d. 1908)
Brother: Aldous Huxley (author, b. 26-Jul-1894, d. 22-Nov-1963)
Brother: Trevenen Huxley (b. 1891, d. Aug-1914 suicide)
Sister: Margaret Huxley (b. 1899, d. 1908)
Mother: Rosalind Bruce Huxley (stepmother)
Brother: David Bruce Huxley (half-brother, b. 1915)
Brother: Andrew F. Huxley (half-brother, physiologist, b. 22-Nov-1917)
Wife: Marie Juliette Baillot (m. 1919, two sons)
Son: Anthony Julian Huxley
Son: Francis Huxley
High School: Eton College
University: Balliol College, Oxford University (1908)
Professor: Rice University (1913-16)
Professor: New College, Oxford University (1919-25)
Professor: Zoology, King's College, London (1925-27)
Darwin Medal 1956
Knighthood 1958
Humanist of the Year 1962
Royal Society
World Wildlife Fund
Author of books:
Essays of a Biologist (1923)
Animal Biology (1927, with J. B. S. Haldane)
Religion Without Revelation (1927)
The Science of Life (1931, with H. G. Wells)
Scientific Research and Social Needs (1934)
We Europeans (1936, with A. C. Haddon)
The Living Thoughts of Darwin (1939)
The New Systematics (1940)
Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942)
Evolutionary Ethics (1943)
Touchstone for Ethics (1947)
Man in the Modern World (1947)
Heredity, East and West (1949)
Biological Aspects of Cancer (1957)
Towards a New Humanism (1957)
New Bottles for New Wine (1958)
The Humanist Frame (1962)
Essays of a Humanist (1964)
From an Antique Land (1966)
The Courtship Habits of the Great Grebe (1968)
Memories (1971-74, memoir, 2 vols.)
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