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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Louis Agassiz
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Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)
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