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Louis Agassiz

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Louis Agassiz 1807-1873 Swiss geologist and naturalist who first popularized the idea of an ice age. Agassiz was a renowned naturalist who, as a professor of natural history at Neuchâtel, determi... Read more

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807-1873 Swiss-American Naturalist, Paleontologist and Glaciologist Jean Louis Agassiz was one of the foremost natural scientists of his time. He was particularly well-kno... Read more

Agassiz, Louis

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Louis Agassiz Born May 28, 1807 Motier-en-Vuly, Switzerland Died December 14, 1873 Cambridge, Massachusetts Naturalist and teacher Louis Agassiz. Library of Congress. "The book of Nature... Read more

Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)

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Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) Swiss-born American naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Motieren-Vuly, Switzerland, and grew up appreciating the beauty of the Swiss Alps. Agassiz's ch... Read more

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), a Swiss-American naturalist, was an outstanding comparative anatomist. He promulgated the glacial theory and opposed Darwin's theory of evolution by natural se... Read more

Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz

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Agassiz was born in Motieren-Vuly, Switzerland, and grew up amidst the breathtaking beauty of the Swiss Alps. Agassiz's childhood was supervised by his minister father, who believed that supernatural ... Read more

Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (28 May 1807-14 December 1873), known as Louis Agassiz, was a naturalist, educator, and physician whose literary significance lies in his establishment of a scientific coro... Read more

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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The Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz dominated American science and intellectual culture from his 1846 arrival in Boston until his death in 1873. From the first he generated a whirlwind of scientific ac... Read more