Louis Agassiz (1807–1873)
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Born at Motier, Switzerland, Louis Agassiz was taught by his parents until the age of ten. Later, as a penurious student and professor in Paris, this Swiss naturalist and geologist studied fish classification and produced the monumental five-volume treatise on extinct marine organisms, Recherches mostra altro sur les poissons fossiles (1833--43). His second period of research was devoted to the study of Swiss glaciers. The results were published as Etudes sur les glaciers (1840). The widespread hunger for scientific knowledge in the early nineteenth century took Agassiz to the United States in 1846, where he became a professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. A skilled lecturer and popular and devoted teacher, Agassiz revolutionized the study of natural history by promoting the open-minded observation and interpretation of nature, as opposed to reliance on traditional classification systems. The Agassiz approach was adopted by an entire generation of scientists. Agassiz established a museum of comparative zoology, now the Agassiz Museum at Harvard. His famous "Essay on Classification" is included in his four-volume Contributions to the Natural History of the United States (1857-62). The poet Ezra Pound ranked Agassiz as a writer of prose whose precise knowledge of his subject led to great exactitude of expression. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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(eng) Full name: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
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Opere di Louis Agassiz
Principles of Zoölogy: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races of… (1863) 7 copie
Correspondence Between Spencer Fullerton Baird and Louis Agassiz - Two Pioneer American Naturalists (1963) 5 copie
Introduction to the Study of Natural History : Edited and Annotated by Christoph Irmscher (2017) 3 copie
An Introduction to the Study of Natural History: In a Series of Lectures Delivered in the Hall of the College of… (2010) 2 copie
Contributions To The Natural History Of The United States Of America, Volume 2, Part 3... (2011) 1 copia
Principles of Zoology, Vol. 1: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races… (2017) 1 copia
Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles, Vol. 1: Contenant L'Introduction Et Toutes Les Questions Generales, Anatomiques,… (2017) 1 copia
Tribune popular science 1 copia
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- Nome legale
- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
- Data di nascita
- 1807-05-28
- Data di morte
- 1873-12-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Switzerland (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Luogo di nascita
- Môtier, Switzerland
- Luogo di morte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Bienne, Switzerland (education)
Lausanne, Switzerland (education)
Zürich, Switzerland (education)
Heidelberg, Germany (education)
Munich, Germany (education)
Paris, France - Istruzione
- University of Zürich
University of Heidelberg
University of Munich (doctor of medicine)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Ph.D.) - Attività lavorative
- zoologist
geologist
glaciologist
paleontologist
ichthyologist
author (mostra tutto 12)
writer
scientist
professor (zoology and geology, Harvard University)
director (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University)
lecturer (Cornell University)
lecturer - Relazioni
- Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary (spouse)
Agassiz, Alexander (son) - Organizzazioni
- Harvard University (Professor of zoology and geology)
Museum of Comparative Zoology (Founder and director) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Wollaston Medal (1836)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Full name: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
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