# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adam-sedgwick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:47:57.247Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/adam-sedgwick"
name: "Adam Sedgwick"
slug: "adam-sedgwick"
description: "Adam Sedgwick FRS was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what later became known as the Great Devonian Controversy about rocks near the boundary between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, he and Murchison proposed the Devonian period."
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birthDate: "1785-03-22"
deathDate: "1873-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump