Huxley

(huks)

  1. Huxley, Aldous (Leonard) 1894-1963; Eng. novelist & essayist, in the U.S. after c. 1935
  2. Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding 1917-; Brit. biophysicist: half-brother of Aldous & Julian
  3. Huxley, Sir Julian (Sorrell) 1887-1975; Eng. biologist & writer: brother of Aldous
  4. Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-95; Eng. biologist & writer: grandfather of Aldous, Julian, & Andrew

See Huxley in American Heritage Dictionary 4

British writer. His best-known work, Brave New World (1932), paints a grim picture of a scientifically organized utopia.

, Andrew Fielding Born 1917.

British physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on nerve cells.

, Thomas Henry 1825-1895.

British biologist who became known as “Darwin's bulldog” for championing Darwin's theory of evolution. His works include Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863).

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