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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( / ˈæɡəsi / AG-ə-see; French: [aɡasi]) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history . Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a PhD at Erlangen and a medical degree in Munich.
Mar 18, 2021 · By Saima S. Iqbal, Crimson Staff WriterMarch 18, 2021. Agassiz examines a sea urchin. By Courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Harvard University. Content warning: Vivid...
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Sep 28, 2016 · Evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves examined the controversial history of Louis Agassiz’s views on race and human evolution and its implications for the modern perceptions of race in...
Mar 30, 2021 · Since their discovery in 1976 by staff at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, images depicting enslaved people of African descent — commissioned in 1850 by Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz as a way to prove biological racial difference — have been at the forefront of national debate over how to reckon with legacies of racism and ...
Chapter. Race Scientists: Louis Agassiz, John Collins Warren, and Jeffries Wyman. This episode took place in the context of the growth of race science at Harvard, which provided an intellectual framework to justify the exclusion and marginalization of Blacks that would endure into the 20th century.
Louis Agassiz (born May 28, 1807, Motier, Switzerland—died December 14, 1873, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes.
A highly skilled paleontologist and geologist (often credited with having discovered the Ice Age), renowned lecturer, tremendous popularizer of biology, and founder of institutes (he lobbied President Abraham Lincoln and others in the federal government to establish the National Academy of Sciences), he was named professor of zoology and g...
