Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley
Huxley in 1922
1st Director-General of the UNESCO
In office
1946–1948
Succeeded byJaime Torres Bodet
Personal details
Born
Julian Sorell Huxley

(1887-06-22)22 June 1887
London, England, U.K.
Died14 February 1975(1975-02-14) (aged 87)
London, England, U.K.
Spouse
(m. 1919)
Children
Parents
RelativesAldous Huxley (brother)
Peter Eckersley (cousin)
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
Military career
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1917–1919
RankSecond Lieutenant
Unit
Battles/warsFirst World War

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.

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.

  1. ^ a b Baker, J. R. (1976). "Julian Sorell Huxley. 22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 22: 206–226. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0009. PMID 11615712. S2CID 27693535.

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