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Scientist. He was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and one of the founding fathers of the modern scientific tradition. Born Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a son of a six-generation protestant minister, he rejected Darwinism and believed Devine Creation along with biological racism. His mother was a physician....
Oct 7, 2020 · The university will also relocate from the façade of Jordan Hall a statue of Jordan’s mentor, Louis Agassiz. The decision follows a review conducted this summer by a committee of faculty, staff ...
Feb 28, 2011 · Introduction Jean Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. A founding father of the modern American scientific establishment, Agassiz was also a lifelong opponent of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Agassiz "ruled in professorial majesty at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology." [He] was a brilliant….man, an essentialist who ...
Since enslaved people were first brought to this country, promoters of anti-Black racism and white supremacy have co-opted the authority of science to justify racial inequality. A history of pseudoscientific methods “proving” white biological superiority and flawed social studies used to show “inherent” racial characteristics still influence society today.
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, född 28 maj 1807 i Môtier, kantonen Fribourg, död 14 december 1873 i Cambridge, Massachusetts, var en schweizisk-amerikansk naturforskare; professor i Neuchâtel 1832–1846, professor vid Harvard University i USA från 1847.
Louis Agassiz (Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz; Motier, 1807 - Cambridge, 1873) Naturalista y geólogo suizo. Realizó estudios de embriología marina e ictiología y también sobre los glaciares, la teoría de las glaciaciones y las series fósiles.
The Discovery of Global Ice Ages by Louis Agassiz Overview. Today, the concept of thick ice sheets covering large portions of the globe is a familiar one. We now know that ice sheets advance and retreat, altering landscape and climate as they do so.
