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Thomas Morgan was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was Charles Hunt Morgan's oldest son.
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Thomas Morgan went into the preperatory department of the State College of Kentucky in 1880. He got his B.S in 1886 for zoology. After graduation he went to the Boston Society of Natural History's marine biological station at Annisquam, Massachusetts and was quite interested in marine organisms.
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Thomas took general biology, anatomy, physiology, morphology, and embryology. He focused on morphology and in 1890 completed his doctoral work on sea spiders and got his Ph.D.
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On June 22 1887, Julian Huxley was born in London England to the writer and editor Leonard Huxley and mother Julia Frances Arnold Huxley.
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In 1904, E.B. Wilson offered Thomas the chair of experimental zoology at Columbia. He remained a member of the zoology department until 1928.
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In 1904, Thomas married Lillian Vaughan Sampson. She was a skillful cytologist. They had four children and once there kids were in school she went back to the labratory and made important contributions to her husband's Drosophilia work.
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Julian Huxley got his degree in zoology in 1909 at Oxford University.
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Morgan began breeding fruit fly's around 1909 and in 1910 discovered a variation in one of the male flys he was working with. This lead to the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance (genes are located on chromosomes and some genes are linked).
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In 1912, the new Rice Institute in Houston Texas gave him work and there he developed and headed the biology department.
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World War 1 began on July 28th 1914. Both Huxley and Morgan would be alive during this crisis. The focus during this time would be on the war.
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Julian served in the British Army Intelligence Corps between 1916 and the end of World War I.
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In 1919 Julian married Marie Juliette Baillot and they had two sons: Anthony Julian Huxley and Francis Huxley.
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In 1925, Julian Huxley becomes a professor of zoology at King's College in London. He kept the labratory until 1935, but served only as an honorary lecturer after 1927.
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During Thomas' time at the California Institue of Technology he participated in scientific and admonistrative work until he died in 1945.
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In 1931, Huxley collaborated with H.G. Wells and his son G.P. Wells and produced The Science of Life, which was an encyclopedic textbook. He also published Essays of a Biologist, Religion without Revalation, Essays in Popular Science, The Stream of Life, What Darwin Really Said, Ants, and Bird-watching Behaviour.
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In 1932, after extensive research and a large amount of writing he finally published Problems of Relative Growth. By this time he was very popular in the field of biology.
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In 1933, Thomas Morgan recieved a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933 for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity.
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In 1934, Julian Huxley created the book 'Principles of Experimental Embryology' with Gavin de Beer, where the tried to survey the various approaches to the subject.
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Since Julian huxley was a well-known eugencist, he was asked to help write Hilter's book of pure race theories; We Europeans in 1935. The writers said that ethnic characteristics are determined mainly by enviroment and cultural history, not genetics.
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World War 2 began in 1939 and ended in 1945. Both Huxley and Morgan would have been alive for this event that impacted the world's focus.
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Julian Huxley was alive to experience World War 2. During this war he had frequent lectures on war aims and postwar issues.
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In 1942, Julian Huxley created the book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis which reintroduced biologists' interest in sexual selection and how it leads to evolution.
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Near the end of 1945, Thomas Morgan had a severe heart attack causing him to die from a ruptured artery.
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In 1946, Julian Huxley became the first director-general of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization. He helped determine the future of the organiztion by providing the idea of applying scientific findings to world problems.
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At the beginning of 1975, Julian Huxley died in London, England of unknown causes.
