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Julian Huxley

1887 - 1975

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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) 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. Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Huxley is the 190th most popular biologist (down from 108th in 2019), the 1,054th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 703rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Biologist.

Julian Huxley is most famous for his work in the field of biology. He was a member of the British Eugenics Society and the first director-general of UNESCO.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Julian Huxley ranks 190 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Bonnet, Paul Greengard, Armand David, Martinus Beijerinck, Anna Atkins, and Julius Richard Petri. After him are Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Bruce Beutler, Jack Horner, and Walther Flemming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Julian Huxley ranks 57. Before him are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Bernardo Houssay, Arnold Zweig, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, and Hans Oster. After him are Josef Harpe, Giovanni Gronchi, Mitsuru Ushijima, Blaise Cendrars, Annette Kellermann, and Josef Čapek. Among people deceased in 1975, Julian Huxley ranks 39. Before him are Erich Kempka, Pavel Sukhoi, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, G. I. Taylor, Éamon de Valera, and Gottlob Berger. After him are P. G. Wodehouse, Carlo Levi, Vicente Feola, Rex Stout, Bernard Herrmann, and Latife Uşşaki.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Huxley ranks 1,054 out of 8,785. Before him are Ninian (360), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Robert Knox (1791), Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham (1458), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), and Anna Atkins (1799). After him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Balliol (1249), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), James Lovelock (1919), Tim Roth (1961), and Alexander III of Scotland (1241).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Julian Huxley ranks 35. Before him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), and Anna Atkins (1799). After him are Joseph Banks (1743), William Carey (1761), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), and John Lindley (1799).

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