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Mar 18, 2021 · Louis Agassiz, Under a Microscope. By Saima S. Iqbal, Crimson Staff WriterMarch 18, 2021. Agassiz examines a sea urchin. By Courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Harvard...
Louis Agassiz, 1869 One of the great scientists of his day, and one of the "founding fathers" of the modern American scientific tradition, Louis Agassiz remains something of a historical enigma. A great systematist and paleontologist, a renowned teacher and tireless promoter of science in America, he was also a lifelong opponent of Darwin's ...
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 ...
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...
May 23, 2018 · 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 selection .
Louis Agassiz is an incredibly influential person for the history of geology. From his work with glaciers that helped to bring an end to the idea of a biblical flood as a serious scientific hypothesis to his staunch opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution, it cannot be said that Agassiz did not leave his mark.
Louis Agassiz | Scientific American. July 1, 1949. 1 min read. Louis Agassiz. The great Swiss biologist had two careers. The second, which began with his arrival in the U. S., did much to...
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