BIOLOGIST

Julian Huxley

1887 - 1975

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Huxley has received more than 999,003 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Julian Huxley is the 108th most popular biologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 627th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Biologist.

Julian Huxley is most famous for his work in the field of biology. He was a member of the British Eugenics Society and the first director-general of UNESCO.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Julian Huxley ranks 108 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Dausset, Nettie Stevens, Thomas Huckle Weller, Louis Agassiz, Edward Tatum, and Jan Swammerdam. After him are Nikolay Pirogov, Georg Forster, Alfred Hershey, John Gurdon, Aimé Bonpland, and Hans Christian Gram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Julian Huxley ranks 43. Before him are John Reed, James Paul Moody, Emilio Mola, Alexander Archipenko, René Cassin, and Harald Bohr. After him are Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Mitsuru Ushijima, Hans Oster, and George Pólya. Among people deceased in 1975, Julian Huxley ranks 31. Before him are Eisaku Satō, Paul Keres, Latife Uşşaki, Éamon de Valera, Pavel Sukhoi, and Edward Tatum. After him are József Mindszenty, Chivu Stoica, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Gottlob Berger, Dong Biwu, and Erich Kempka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Huxley ranks 703 out of 8,785. Before him are James May (1963), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Peter Greenaway (1942), Francis Hutcheson (1694), David Brewster (1781), and William Webb Ellis (1806). After him are Chris Rea (1951), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Surtees (1934), Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), and Oliver Reed (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Julian Huxley ranks 17. Before him are Robert Edwards (1925), Philip Miller (1691), Archibald Hill (1886), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Philip Sclater (1829), and Oliver Smithies (1925). After him are John Gurdon (1933), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), and Martin Evans (1941).

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