Huxley (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. English novelist, essayist, and critic.
  2. English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963 (half brother of Aldous and Sir Julian Sorell).
  3. English biologist and writer (brother of Aldous).
  4. English biologist and writer (grandfather of Aldous and Sir Julian Sorell Huxley).
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  1. Aldous (Leonard) (ˈɔːldəs). 1894–1963, British novelist and essayist, noted particularly for his novel Brave New World (1932), depicting a scientifically controlled civilization of human robots
  2. his half-brother, Sir Andrew Fielding, 1917–2012, English biologist: noted for his research into nerve cells and the mechanism by which nerve impulses are transmitted; Nobel prize for physiology or medicine shared with Alan Hodgkin and John Eccles 1963; president of the Royal Society (1980–85)
  3. brother of Aldous, Sir Julian (Sorrel). 1887–1975, English biologist; first director-general of UNESCO (1946–48). His works include Essays of a Biologist (1923) and Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942)
  4. their grandfather, Thomas Henry. 1825–95, English biologist, the leading British exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution; his works include Man's Place in Nature (1863) and Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Huxley (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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