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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə s i / AG-ə-see; French:) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Jun 18, 2024 · Louis Agassiz (born May 28, 1807, Motier, Switzerland—died December 14, 1873, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes.
Louis Agassiz, (born May 28, 1807, Motier, Switz.—died Dec. 14, 1873, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.), Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher. After studies in Switzerland and Germany, he moved to the U.S. in 1846. He did landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873) was a medical doctor, a geologist, a glaciologist, a biologist, a paleontologist, and a polygenist—but he was most especially a prolific observer of and writer about the natural world.
A highly skilled paleontologist and geologist (often credited with having discovered the Ice Age), renowned lecturer, tremendous popularizer of biology, and founder of institutes (he lobbied President Abraham Lincoln and others in the federal government to establish the National Academy of Sciences), he was named professor of zoology and g...
Mar 18, 2021 · Agassiz examines a sea urchin. By Courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Harvard University. Content warning: Vivid description of racist language and actions. In 1847, the crowd...
May 23, 2018 · Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–73) A Swiss geologist who worked initially on fossil fish, Agassiz is better known for his glacial theory (1837). He met Buckland in 1840, and persuaded him that drift deposits in Britain were evidence of a glacial epoch.
Louis Agassiz was the first person to propose the idea of a global ice age, a term that had not yet been coined. This leads many people to mark him in the annals of history as the father of glaciology.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807—December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (married in 1850), and one of the first world-class American scientists.
Apr 1, 2013 · Loving Agassiz. C hristoph I rmscher, whose previous writings on Emerson, Audubon, et al., have established him as a keen guide to 19th century American intellectual history, has turned his attention to Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1802–1873).
