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Huxley

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Hux·ley  (hksl), Aldous Leonard 1894-1963.
British writer. His best-known work, Brave New World (1932), paints a grim picture of a scientifically organized utopia.
Huxley, Andrew Fielding Born 1917.
British physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on nerve cells.
Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-1895.
British biologist who became known as "Darwin's bulldog" for championing Darwin's theory of evolution. His works include Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863).
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Noun1.HuxleyHuxley - English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
Andrew Fielding Huxley, Andrew Huxley
2.Huxley - English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
3.HuxleyHuxley - English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas Huxley


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I told him I had spent some years at the Royal College of Science, and had done some researches in biology under Huxley.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
And, as in the case of flowers, I have as yet failed, after consultation with one of the highest authorities, namely, Professor Huxley, to discover a single case of an hermaphrodite animal with the organs of reproduction so perfectly enclosed within the body, that access from without and the occasional influence of a distinct individual can be shown to be physically impossible.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
But his favourite reading was Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and Henry George; while Emerson and Thomas Hardy he read for relaxation.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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