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Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Aldous Leonard Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Sir Julian Huxley

English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author who greatly influenced the modern development of embryology, systematics, and studies of behaviour and evolution.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Andrew Huxley

Andrew Huxley is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system.

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Leonard Huxley     Leonard Huxley       Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Leonard Huxley: an Australian physicis

Andrew Huxley     Andrew Huxley       Origin/Culture/Country: British

Andrew Huxley: English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system.

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley     Sir Julian Sorell Huxley       Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley: was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund.Huxley was well-known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin-Wallace medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Thomas Henry Huxley     Thomas Henry Huxley       Origin/Culture/Country: English

Thomas Henry Huxley: was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. [1] Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated on whether man was closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and fought against the more extreme versions of religious tradition.

Julian Huxley     Julian Huxley       Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Julian Huxley: is an Australian rugby union footballer. In 2011 he played for the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby competition.Huxley made his Super Rugby debut for the Queensland Reds in 2003. His Reds season was successful year and was awarded the Pilecki Medal to

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