 Description: Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (1887-1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist, and internationalist. He was well-known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. 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 awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science in 1953, and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956 for his work on evolution. He was knighted in 1958. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and protagonist of evolution. His maternal grandfather was the academic Tom Arnold, great-uncle poet Matthew Arnold. [from Wikipedia, 10/26/07]
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