Julian Huxley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Julian Huxley

English biologist, philosopher, author

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1887

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1975

Profession: writer, professor, physiologist, philosopher, evolutionary biologist, ethologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (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 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, 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.
In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population.
Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society and was its president from 1959 to 1962. There is a public house named after Sir Julian in Selsdon, London Borough of Croydon, close to the Selsdon Wood Nature Reserve which he helped establish.