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Noun Named Entity
SYL
louis Agassiz
EN
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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IS A
EN
naturalist
Homo sapiens
ARCHIVES AT
EN
Swiss Literary Archives
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Archives de l'État de Neuchâtel
EN
ETH Zurich University Archives
AWARD RECEIVED
Pour le Merite
EN
Copley Medal
EN
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
EN
Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Wollaston Medal
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CHILD
EN
Alexander Agassiz
EN
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
ꠀꠝꠦꠞꠤꠇꠣ
EN
Switzerland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
EN
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
EN
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Nordisk Familjebok
EN
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
EN
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
+4 relations
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Frederic Ward Putnam
EDUCATED AT
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Heidelberg University
EN
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
EN
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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University of Zurich
EMPLOYER
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Cornell University
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Harvard University
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University of Neuchâtel
EN
Museum of Comparative Zoology
FIELD OF WORK
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biology
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botany
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geology
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ichthyology
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glaciology
GIVEN NAME
Jean
Louis
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
English
EN
German
MEMBER OF
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National Academy of Sciences
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Royal Society
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Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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NATIVE LANGUAGE
EN
French
OCCUPATION
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writer
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biologist
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doctor
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geologist
EN
philosopher
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PLACE OF BIRTH
Môtiers
PLACE OF BURIAL
EN
Mount Auburn Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
SIBLING
EN
Auguste Agassiz
STUDENT
Joseph LeConte
Joel asaph allen
WRITING LANGUAGE
EN
English
EN
German
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louis Agassiz

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