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Louis Agassiz, the son of Rodolphe and Rose Mayor Agassiz, grew to manhood enjoying the prosperity and status of his family and the natural beauty of the Swiss cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, and Neuchâtel. He never identified with a sectarian religious persuasion. He did embrace the Protestant pietism of his minister father, ...
Harvard in fight over racist images - The Boston Globe
27 Jun 2012 - The 19th-century Swiss-born naturalist Louis Agassiz was a revered figure at Harvard University. He was also a racist who commissioned humiliating photographs of slaves and Brazilian natives. A Swiss group wants to display reproductions of the images in an exhibit on Agassiz's racism, but the Harvard ...
'Louis Agassiz,' by Christoph Irmscher - The New York Times
31 Jan 2013 - During the California earthquake of 1906, the marble statue of Louis Agassiz toppled off the second story of Stanford University's zoology building and plunged headfirst into the ground. The great scientist, with his head buried in concrete, his upturned body sticking up into air, became an iconic image of the ...
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
(1807-1873) was a Swiss naturalist and palaeontologist, best known for
developing the concept of glacial theory. Glacial theory is the idea
that glaciers once expanded over much larger areas of the Earth than
they presently occupy, including much of temperate Europe and vast areas
of North ...
Every
great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it
conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before.
Lastly they say they always believed it. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (28 May 1807 – 14 December 1873) was a Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist and one ...
Louis Agassiz: Biography, Theory & Contributions
A very influential and famous scientist, Louis Agassiz had some beliefs that sharply contrasted with the scientific community of his time. In this...Famous Biologist Louis Agassiz on the Usefulness of Learning ...
11 Mei 2016 - 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. He continued, “Write a description of it. Find out what you can without damaging the specimen. When I think that you ...
Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
Drawing, pencil and ink, by Cecilie Braun Agassiz.
From Cecilie Braun, Portfolio of Pencil Drawings, Botany Library,
Natural History Museum, London. © Natural History Museum, London. “ Glacier de l'Aar.” From Louis Agassiz, Études sur les glaciers (1840), plate 14, ...
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