Julian Sorell Huxley

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King's College London, London, UK 
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Zoology
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (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, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.

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Thomas Henry Huxley research assistant (Evolution Tree)
 (Not strictly a research assistant, but he was TH Huxley's grandson and had a huge influence on his life.)

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Charles S. Elton research assistant Kings College London
David Lack research assistant King's College
Edmund Briscoe Ford research assistant 1925 Oxford (Evolution Tree)
John Randal Baker grad student 1926 Oxford (Evolution Tree)
John Miall Winterbottom grad student 1932 UCL (Evolution Tree)
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