Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS[1] (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British 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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1st Director-General of the UNESCO | |
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Succeeded by | Jaime Torres Bodet |
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Born | Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-06-22)22 June 1887 London, England, U.K. |
Died | 14 February 1975(1975-02-14) (aged 87) London, England, U.K. |
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Relatives | Aldous Huxley (brother) Peter Eckersley (cousin) |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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Fields | Evolutionary biology |
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Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1917–1919 |
Rank | Second Lieutenant |
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Battles/wars | First World War |
Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956,[1] and the Darwin–Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in the 1958 New Year Honours, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1956 he received a Special Award from the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population.