Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American naturalist (1807-1873) · Switzerland · Scientists · Died at 66
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Something wrong?Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
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Portrait by Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1844
Agassiz (seated) with Benjamin Peirce
Portrait photograph by John Adams Whipple, circa 1865
Nouvelles études et expériences sur les glaciers actuels, 1847
The man-sized iron auger that was used by Agassiz to drill up to 7.5 m deep into the Unteraar Glacier to take its temperature (Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern)
Agassiz in middle age
Agassiz in 1870Awards
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Lived 1807 to 1873 · aged 66
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