Huxley Synonyms

English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Andrew Huxley
  2. Andrew Fielding Huxley
English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. aldous huxley
  2. Aldous Leonard Huxley
English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Thomas Huxley
  2. thomas henry huxley

Huxley Sentence Examples

  • The Royal Society awarded him the Copley medal in 5892, and selected him as Croonian lecturer in the following year, his subject being the position of pathology among the biological sciences; and in 1898 he delivered the second Huxley memorial lecture at Charing Cross Hospital.

  • Huxley concluded, from descriptions, that" the Deccan tribes are indistinguishable from the Australian races."

  • Huxley admitted that this contention could not be ruled out as impossible.

  • Popular scepticism - perhaps even Charles Darwin's; Huxley himself was a student of Hume - understands by agnosticism that science is certain while philosophy and theology are baseless.

  • Huxley, the sporosac is the starting-point of an evolution leading up through the various types of gonophores to the free medusa as the culminating point of a phyletic series.

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