HUXLEY

English writer

• Brave New World author

• English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)

• Grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)

• English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)