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让·路易·鲁道夫·阿加西（法語： Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ，法语发音： [ʒɑ̃ lwi ʁɔdɔlf aɡasi] ，1807年5月28日—1873年12月14日），19世纪瑞士裔植物学家、动物学家和地质学家，以冰川理论闻名。
Mar 14, 2013 · Agassiz (born Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz), a world-renowned and celebrated Swiss-born scientist whose name, more than 100 years later, would grace street signs, schools, and even a mountain range ...
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon .
Louis Agassiz. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807—December 14, 1873) was a Swiss - American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote, "Somebody ...
Famous Biologist Louis Agassiz on the Usefulness of Learning Through Observation. Louis Agassiz, the famous Swiss biologist, placed a fish specimen on the table in front of his post-graduate student. “That’s only a sunfish,” the student said. “I know that,” Agassiz replied.
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz. by James Hanken. May-June 2013. On January 15, 1873, Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recounted in his diary a “long conversation” he’d had that morning with Louis Agassiz, founding director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The MCZ had been founded in 1859, and the ...
Louis Agassiz. The idea of Continental Glaciation came from Louis Agassiz in 1840. Agassiz’ hypothesis says that much of the continent of North America was covered by glacial ice that was 2 miles thick and which extended over much of the midwest. Agassiz was Swiss, and so he knew glaciers well. When he came to America, he found only mountain ...
