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Huxley (surname)
Huxley is an English surname, originally given to people from Huxley, Cheshire. Notable people with the surname include: *The British Huxley family: **Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist, supporter of Charles Darwin and inventor of the term 'agnosticism' ** Leonard Huxley (writer) (1860–1933), British writer and editor, son of Thomas Henry **Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, son of Leonard and author of ''Brave New World'' **Sir Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist and author, son of Leonard **Sir Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British physiologist and biophysicist, son of Leonard **Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), British writer, granddaughter-in-law of Thomas **Sir Leonard Huxley (physicist) (1902–1988), Australian physicist, second cousin once-removed of Thomas Huxley **Anthony Julian Huxley (1920–1992), British botanist with the standard author abbreviation "Huxley" Others *Hugh Huxley (1924–2013), British biologist, and Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Julian Huxley
Anthony Julian Huxley (2 December 1920 – 26 December 1992) was a British botanist. He edited '' Amateur Gardening'' from 1967 to 1971, and was vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1991. He was the son of Julian Huxley. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Bibliography * ''Indoor plants.'' Collingridge, 1957 * Anthony Huxley, Oleg Polunin: ''Flowers of the Mediterranean.'' 1965 ** ''Blumen am Mittelmeer. Ein Bestimmungsbuch.'' 1981, * ''Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Mountains.'' 1968 * ''Gebirgsflora in Farben. 1275 Pflanzen der Gebirge Europas.'' 1969 * ''Garden Perennials and Water Plants.'' Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1971, * ''Standard encyclopedia of the world's oceans and islands.'' 1971 * ''Garden Terms Simplified.'' David & Charles, 1971, * ''Kew's new country extension: Wakehurst Place, Sussex.'' 1972 * ''Flowers in Greece: an outline of flora.'' 1972 * ''House Plants, Cacti and Succulents.'' Littleham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenina Huxley
''Demolition Man'' is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord Simon Phoenix (Snipes), they are both sentenced to be cryogenically frozen in 1996. Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing in 2032, but escapes. Society has changed and all crime has seemingly been eliminated. Unable to deal with a criminal as dangerous as Phoenix, the authorities awaken Spartan to help capture him again. The story makes allusions to many other works including Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel ''Brave New World'', and H. G. Wells's ''The Sleeper Awakes''. The film was released in the United States on October 8, 1993, to mixed reviews from critics. It earned $159 million worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Huxley
Richard Huxley (5 August 1940 – 11 February 2013) was an English musician who was the bassist for the Dave Clark Five, a group that was part of the British Invasion. Biography Born at Livingstone Hospital, Dartford, Kent, he joined the group in 1958, and played on all of the band's hits including "Glad All Over" and " Bits and Pieces". He was the only member of the group who did not write songs. After the group disbanded in 1970, Huxley pursued a career in property development but maintained an involvement in the music business. He was in attendance for the ceremonial induction of the group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2008, along with Lenny Davidson and Dave Clark. Death Huxley died 11 February 2013, at the age of 72, after suffering from emphysema Emphysema, or pulmonary emphysema, is a lower respiratory tract disease, characterised by air-filled spaces ( pneumatoses) in the lungs, that can vary in size and may be very large. The spaces are ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Huxley
Martin Neil Huxley (born in 1944) is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1970, the year after his supervisor Harold Davenport had died. He is a professor at Cardiff University. Huxley proved a result on gaps between prime numbers, namely that if ''p''''n'' denotes the ''n''-th prime number and if θ > 7/12, then : p_ - p_n < p_n^\theta, for all ''n''. Huxley also improved the known bound on the Dirichlet divisor problem
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (; 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician who made deep contributions to number ...
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Julian Huxley (rugby Union)
Julian Huxley (born 3 August 1979) is an Australian rugby union professional footballer. In 2008 he had established himself in the Wallabies and was named Australian Rookie of the Year. In 2011 he played for the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby competition. Early life Huxley played for a Lindfield club in his youth, and was educated at the St Ives prep school of Sydney Grammar School and The King's School, Sydney and went on to play for the Gordon and Sydney University clubs. Huxley has previously appeared for the under-19, under-21 and 'A' Australia sides, he also played for the Australian sevens. Rugby career Huxley made his Super Rugby debut for the Queensland Reds in 2003. His Reds season was successful year and was awarded the Pilecki Medal to become the player of the year. At the end of 2004 he went to New Zealand to play for Northland. He returned to Super Rugby in 2005, and subsequently played every match of the season. After the Reds' 2006 season Huxley joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Huxley
Jonathan Huxley (born 1965) is a British artist whose paintings and murals depict illusions of human figures in motion. Education Huxley was born in Surrey in 1965. He studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design (1985–1986) and Nottingham Trent Polytechnic (1986–1989) and graduated from the latter with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1989. He studied for a Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal Academy of Arts (1989–1992). Professional life Huxley's work is featured by Galerie Olivier Waltman in Paris, the Crane Kalman Gallery in London and Waltman Ortega Fine Art in Miami. Notable works include a 1993 large scale mural commissioned by Bermondsey Council and a mural in the Met Bar in the Metropolitan Hotel, Park Lane London. Huxley has also been commissioned by UBS, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, EMI, the Richard Rogers headquarters for Channel Four Television Corporation and The Colmore Building in Birmingham. Huxley had the visual impairment conditions nystagmus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Huxley
Hugh Esmor Huxley MBE FRS (25 February 1924 – 25 July 2013) was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education was interrupted for five years by the Second World War, during which he served in the Royal Air Force. His contribution to development of radar earned him an MBE. Huxley was the first PhD student of Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council at Cambridge, where he worked on X-ray diffraction studies on muscle fibres. In the 1950s he was one of the first to use electron microscopy to study biological specimens. During his postdoctoral at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he, with fellow researcher Jean Hanson, discovered the underlying principle of muscle movement, popularised as the sliding filament theory in 1954. After 15 years of research, he proposed the "swinging cross-bridge hypothesis" in 1969, which becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Huxley (physicist)
Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley (29 May 1902 – 4 September 1988) was an Australian physicist. Huxley was born in London, the eldest son of George Hamborough and Lilian Huxley. He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley. His family migrated from England to Australia in 1905 when he was three, and settled in Tasmania, where Huxley showed great academic and sporting promise while attending The Hutchins School. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to New College, Oxford while in his second year at the University of Tasmania and obtained a D.Phil. from Oxford in 1928. On 5 October 1929 he married Ella Mary Child 'Molly' Copeland who was reading history at Somerville College. first published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007. Huxley was a physicist at the Australian Radio Research Board, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1929 to 1931; Lecturer in Physics, University College, Leicester 1932 to 1940; Principal Scientific Officer, Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huxley, Cheshire
Huxley is a small rural village and former civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ..., now in the parish of Hargrave and Huxley, in the Cheshire West and Chester district, and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 it had a population of 220, increasing to 251 at the 2011 Census. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form Hargrave and Huxley and Tattenhall and District. It is home to Huxley Primary School. See also * Listed buildings in Huxley, Cheshire * Lower Huxley Hall * Higher Huxley Hall References External links Villages in Cheshire Former civil parishes in Cheshire Cheshire West and Chester {{Cheshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' and ''The Mottled Lizard'', based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Early life and education Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya. Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. Her upbringing was unconventional; she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Huxley's 1959 book ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. It was adapted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the Atlantic squid. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Huxley was recruited by the British Anti-Aircraft Command and later transferred to the Admiralty. After the war he resumed research at the University of Cambridge, where he developed interference microscopy that would be suitable for studying muscle fibres. In 1952, he was joined by a German physiologist Rolf Niedergerke. Together they discovered in 1954 the mechanism of muscle con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
