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 activity. The nascent Lawrence Scientific School at...

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 selection. Paleontology was just beginning to emerge...

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 powers created all natural wonders. Agassiz followed...

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 powers created all natural wonders. Agassiz followed...

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 corollary for Emerson's belief that there is a spiritual...