Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell

Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell,1887–1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas HenryHuxley, brother of AldousHuxley, and half-brother of Sir AndrewHuxley. He taught at the Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. (1912–16), at Oxford (1919–25), and at King's College, London (1925–35). During those years and subsequently, as secretary (1935–42) of the Zoological Society of London, he was also president of the National Union of Scientific Workers (1926–29). From 1946 to 1948 he served as the first director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). A gifted exponent of science, his writings includeAnimal Biology(with J. B. S. Haldane, 1927),Scientific Research and Social Needs(1934),We Europeans(with A. C. Haddon, 1936),The Living Thoughts of Darwin(1939),Man in the Modern World(1947),Heredity, East and West(1949), andMemories(2 vol., 1971 and 1974). Also, he edited T. H. Huxley'sDiary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake(1935),The New Systematics(1940), andThe Humanist Frame(1962).

See biography by J. R. Baker (1978).

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