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Noun huxley has 3 senses
- Huxley, Andrew Huxley, Andrew Fielding Huxley - English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
--1 is a kind of physiologist
- Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley - English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
--2 is a kind of writer, author
- Huxley, Thomas Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley - English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
--3 is a kind of biologist, life scientist
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