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Categories: Swiss Protestants, Museum founders, Proponents of scientific racism, Heidelberg University alumni, Cornell University faculty
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Agassiz  Louis Agassiz  Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz  Agassiz, Louis  American Tropical race
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United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) WordNet 3.0
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United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS FRSE was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Wikipedia
Swiss-born American naturalist Wikidata
IS A
naturalist
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Swiss Literary Archives
Archives de l'État de Neuchâtel
ETH Zurich University Archives
AWARD RECEIVED
Pour le Mérite
Copley Medal
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Wollaston Medal
+2 relations
CHILD
Alexander Agassiz
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
Switzerland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Nordisk familjebok
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
+4 relations
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Frederic Ward Putnam
EDUCATED AT
Heidelberg University
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Zurich
EMPLOYER
Cornell University
Harvard University
University of Neuchâtel
Museum of Comparative Zoology
FIELD OF WORK
biology
botany
geology
ichthyology
glaciology
GIVEN NAME
Jean
Louis
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
German
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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NATIVE LANGUAGE
French
OCCUPATION
writer
biologist
doctor
geologist
philosopher
+7 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Môtiers
PLACE OF BURIAL
Mount Auburn Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Auguste Agassiz
STUDENT
Joseph LeConte
Joel Asaph Allen
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
German
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Wikipedia
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Louis Agassiz
Wikidata
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Louis Agassiz
Wikipedia Redirections
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Agassiz, Agassiz, Louis, American Tropical race, Cape of Good Hope race, Eastern American Temperate race, J. L. R. Agassiz, Jean Agassiz, Jean L. Agassiz, Jean Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, L. Agassiz, L AGASSIZ, Louis Agassiz Medal, Louis J. R. Agassiz, Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, New Holland race, South American Temperate race, Tropical Asiatic race, Western American Temperate race
Wikidata Alias
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Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolph Agassiz

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