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The Birth of Thomas Morgan
Thomas Morgan was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was Charles Hunt Morgan's oldest son. -
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The Evolution of Evolution featuring Thomas Morgan and Julian Huxley
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Thomas Morgan's Graduation
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. -
Thomas Morgan's Attendance at Hopkin's University
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. -
Birth of Julian Huxley
On June 22 1887, Julian Huxley was born in London England to the writer and editor Leonard Huxley and mother Julia Frances Arnold Huxley. -
Thomas Morgan's Experimental Zoology
In 1904, E.B. Wilson offered Thomas the chair of experimental zoology at Columbia. He remained a member of the zoology department until 1928. -
Thomas Morgan's Marriage
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. -
Huxley's Graduation from Oxford
Julian Huxley got his degree in zoology in 1909 at Oxford University. -
Thomas Morgan's work with Drosphila
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). -
Huxley's time at the Rice Institute
In 1912, the new Rice Institute in Houston Texas gave him work and there he developed and headed the biology department. -
World War 1
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. -
Julian Huxley and World War 1
Julian served in the British Army Intelligence Corps between 1916 and the end of World War I. -
Julian Huxley's Marriage
In 1919 Julian married Marie Juliette Baillot and they had two sons: Anthony Julian Huxley and Francis Huxley. -
Huxley becomes a Professor
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. -
Thomas Morgan's time at the division of biological sciences at California Institute of Technology
During Thomas' time at the California Institue of Technology he participated in scientific and admonistrative work until he died in 1945. -
Huxley's book publishings
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. -
Huxley's Problems of Relative Growth
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. -
Thomas Morgan's Nobel Prize
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. -
Huxley's Principles of Experimental Embryology
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. -
Huxley and Hitler
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. -
Wolrd War 2
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. -
Huxley and World War 2
Julian Huxley was alive to experience World War 2. During this war he had frequent lectures on war aims and postwar issues. -
Huxley's Evolution:The Modern Synthesis
In 1942, Julian Huxley created the book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis which reintroduced biologists' interest in sexual selection and how it leads to evolution. -
Thomas Morgan's Death
Near the end of 1945, Thomas Morgan had a severe heart attack causing him to die from a ruptured artery. -
Huxley and the UNESCO
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. -
The Death of Julian Huxley
At the beginning of 1975, Julian Huxley died in London, England of unknown causes.
