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Name: Adam Sedgwick
Birth Date: March 22, 1785
Death Date: January 27, 1873
Place of Birth: Dent, Yorkshire Dales, England
Place of Death: Cambridge, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: geologist

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Biography of Adam Sedgwick
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The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian system, the first period of the Paleozoic geologic era. Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestral region of the Yorkshire Dales. In 1804 he entered...


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Sedgwick, Reverend Adam (1785-1873) Summary
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English geologist and Anglican priest Reverend Adam Sedgwick contributed to the entire scope of geology, but mainly toward defining the Cambrian stratum of the fossil record and trying to show precisely when life originated in geologic time. As an...
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Reverend Adam Sedgwick Summary
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1785-1873 British geologist who first established the existence of the Cambrian period of geologic time. One of Britain's elite geologists, the Reverend Sedgewick was the first to define the Cambrian period using fossil evidence unique to that...
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The Independent - London
Mana Sedgwick
04/04/2008: 847 words, approx. 3 pages
Distinguished public servant Mana Sedgwick had a distinguished career in public service dedicated to women's education and to the improvement of the conditions of disadvantaged women. Herself a woman of great resource and intelligence, she became the natural head of a series of...
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Sedgwick-James moves for competitive edge.
01/15/1990: 708 words, approx. 2 pages
Sedgwick-James Moves For Competitive Edge More than four-and-a-half years after U.S. insurance broker Fred S. James was acquired by the Sedgwick Group of London, a major corporate restructuring of the enlarged group is being implemented to gain real benefits and growth from...
 


 

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