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	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz - LoveToKnow 1911
		JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1807-1873), Swiss naturalist and geologist, was the son of the Protestant pastor of the parish of Motier, on the north-eastern shore of the Lake of Morat (Murten See), and not far from the eastern extremity of the Lake of Neuchatel.
		Agassiz was born at this retired place on the 28th of May 1807.
		The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with Charpentier, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate thoroughly the structure and movements of the ice.
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	Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born palaeontologist and systematist who became one of the most respected men of science of the latter nineteenth century.
		Agassiz was educated in Switzerland and Germany where Naturphilosophie was the academic orthodoxy according to which nature was understood.
		Agassiz believed that nature's deep order was revealed in apparent gradations from low to high forms in each taxon, the order of appearance in the fossil record, latitude, as well as in embryological recapitulation.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/aggasiz.html (347 words)

	Louis Agassiz
		Agassiz made such an impression on Cuvier that he abandoned, in favor of Agassiz, plans for a major work on fossil fishes, releasing his materials, drawings and notes.
		Agassiz's collection were transfered from the small wooden house, which was later moved and renovated to become the eventual Zoological Hall for the use of students and assistants at the museum.
		Agassiz tried in vain to stop the sweep of Darwinism, and was most distressed by the fact that, with the exception of Asa Gray, most proponents of Darwinian thinking in the U.S. at that time were not naturalists.
	research.amnh.org /ichthyology/neoich/collectors/agassiz.html (1083 words)

	Agassiz, Louis
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz has been called the "Father of Glaciology" and the "First Naturalist." One of the greatest contributors to the science of water, he discovered evidence of a time when the frozen state of water changed Earth's landscape: the Ice Age.
		Louis Agassiz recognized that global climatic conditions in the past had led to ice ages in which glaciers covered a much larger part of the Earth than they do today.
		Agassiz continued his teaching and research in the United States, where he became a professor of natural history at Harvard University and founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which is still part of the university today.
	www.waterencyclopedia.com /A-Bi/Agassiz-Louis.html (364 words)

	Louis Agassiz Biography
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists.
		Louis Agassiz was born in Môtiers, Switzerland, near Lake Neuchâtel.
		Agassiz is remembered today for his work on ice ages, and for being one of the last major zoologists to resist Charles Darwin's theories on evolution (an attitude he would not relinquish for the rest of his life).
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Agassiz_Louis.html (1767 words)

	Louis Agassiz
		Louis Agassiz is recognized as one of the early pioneers in the field of natural history.
		Agassiz was appointed professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University in 1847, and also served as a guest lecturer at Cornell University while carrying on his duties at Harvard.
		Louis Agassiz died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3910.html (1306 words)

	KIE Evidence: Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
		The son of a minister, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born on May 28, 1807 in the village of Montier, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
		Agassiz was educated in the universities of Switzerland and Germany as a physician, like many naturalists of the time.
		The cornerstone of Agassiz's biological thought was his belief that the gradation from low to high forms, in any taxon, paralleled the order of appearance in the fossil record, the order of stages in the organisms' development, and the distribution and ecology of the taxon.
	kie.berkeley.edu /ned/data/E01-980502-001/full.html (594 words)

	Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz Biography \| World of Biology
		Agassiz was born in Motieren-Vuly, Switzerland, and grew up amidst the breathtaking beauty of the Swiss Alps.
		Among many others, Agassiz was fascinated with the extreme heights of the Alps and the occasional sight of huge boulders that were thought to have been created by glacial movement.
		Agassiz concluded that the center stakes moved faster since the glacier was held back at the edges by friction with the mountain wall.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jean-louis-rodolphe-agassiz-wob (517 words)

	LouisAgassiz
		Agassiz was a natural scientist who traveled to Brazil in connection with his attempt to prove Cuvier's Catastrophism theory B that the earth goes though periodic catastrophes, which cause turn new species of animals, and plants appear.
		Agassiz scientific purpose made his account very different from the travel writers of the period, with his focus almost exclusively on his research and with little information being revealed about the country in which he is working, except to the extent that the reported information bears on the scientific purpose of the work.
		Agassiz was a very important part in the travel diary because without her it would have undoubtedly ended up as just a scientific report and not a travel journal.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/history/courses/travel/la.htm (557 words)

	World of Earth Science \| Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Motieren-Vuly, Switzerland, and grew up appreciating the beauty of the Swiss Alps.
		Agassiz's childhood was supervised by his minister father, who believed that supernatural powers created all natural wonders.
		Despite the evidence with which he was presented, Agassiz's background prevented him from agreeing with such conclusions, and he continued to believe that supernatural forces were responsible for the similarities.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/agassiz-louis/print (501 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Agassiz,
		Agassiz, Lake glacial lake of the Pleistocene epoch, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, 250 mi (400 km) wide, formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet some 10,000 years ago; covered much of present-day NW Minnesota, NE North Dakota, S Manitoba, and SW Ontario.
		Located in the outlet channel of glacial Lake Agassiz, it is the source of the Minnesota River and serves as a storage reservoir for the Minnesota Valley.
		It is a remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Agassiz, (562 words)

	Agassiz
		The son of a minister, Agassiz was educated in the universities of Heidelberg, Erlangen (from which he got his doctorate in 1829), and Munich (from which he got his medical doctoral degree in 1830).
		Agassiz took up the study of glaciers in 1836 as something of a sideline, but his contributions made him known as the ‘Father of Glaciology’: he formulated what is known as the Theory of Ice Ages, according to which pre-historical glacial advances were due to world-wide climatic changes.
		Despite his intellectual prestige, Agassiz was viewed as an anachronism by many of his students when it came to issues of evolution and his rabid (and public) anti-Darwinian postures were soon ignored.
	www.clt.astate.edu /aromero/new_page_17.htm (595 words)

	History of geology--Agassiz
		Agassiz undertook a tour of glaciers in the Chamonix district with de Charpentier in 1836.
		Agassiz arranged an appointment at the Lowell Institute in Boston and arrived in 1846.
		Agassiz's persistant efforts in fund raising for a museum finally were rewarded in 1857 with groundbreaking for a new Museum of Comparative Zoology.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/agassiz.htm (1917 words)

	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Paleontology was just beginning to emerge as a science during Agassiz's time; speculations about the distribution of species and their relationships to each other were becoming a major preoccupation of naturalists, and science was taking on an increasingly important place in the curricula of educational institutions.
		Louis Agassiz was born at Môtier-en-Vuly in French Switzerland on May 28, 1807.
		Agassiz further developed the notion that species were created in the localities where they were destined to pass their lives, that is, common forms found in widely separated areas were proof not of migration but of separate creation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jean-louis-rodolphe-agassiz (1145 words)

	Louis Agassiz
		American, Swiss-born naturalist and geologist, was the son of the Protestant pastor of the parish of Motier, on the north-eastern shore of the Lake of Morat (Murten See), and not far from the eastern extremity of the Lake of Neuchâtel.
		Agassiz, as early as 1829, with his wonted enthusiasm, planned the publication of the work which, more than any other, laid the foundation of his worldwide fame.
		Louis Agassiz was twice married, and by his first wife he had an only son, Alexander Agassiz, born in 1835; in 1850, after her death, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Cabot Cary of Boston, afterwards well known as a writer and as an active promoter of educational work in connection with Radcliffe College.
	www.nndb.com /people/774/000082528 (1940 words)

	Agassiz, Louis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Agassiz, Louis (Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz), 1807-73, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, b.
		Agassiz practiced medicine briefly, but his real interest lay in scientific research.
		Agassiz came to the United States in 1846 and two years later accepted the professorship of zoology and geology at Harvard.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-agassizl.html (463 words)

	Louis Agassiz
		Agassiz labored for support of science in his adopted homeland; he and his colleagues urged the creation of a National Academy of Sciences, and Agassiz became a founding member in 1863.
		Agassiz was also appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1863.
		Agassiz replaced the Flood with his glaciers, which he thought had been formed instantaneously all over the world; he called glaciers "God's great plough," and tried unsucessfully to find evidence of glaciation in Brazil.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/agassiz.html (1537 words)

	b07 Agassiz of the Ice
		Agassiz's major point was that "perched bowlders" (erratics) and the poorly-sorted sediments mapped as diluvium (or drift as it became called) rest on striated bedrock.
		Agassiz's hypothesis of an Ice Age is that "drift" is till (and associated outwash).
		Lyell, at first reluctant to ascribe to the Agassiz's Ice Age, by 1855 had decided that the concordant directions of these bounder trains and bedrock striations, where exposed beneath unfossiliferous boulder clays, is evidence of a former continental icesheet, which operated as does the one that still exists in Greenland.
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/b07.htm (2118 words)

	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (28 May 1807-14 December 1873), known as Louis Agassiz, was a naturalist, educator, and physician whose literary significance lies in his establishment of a scientific corollary for Emerson's belief that there is a spiritual quality underlying the natural world.
		Agassiz also had contact with other literary notables of Boston as one of the founding members of the Saturday Club in 1856, professor of natural history at Harvard College, and founder of his own school which Emerson's daughter, Ellen, attended.
		Agassiz intended his Contributions to the Natural History of the United States (Boston: Little, Brown, 1857-1862) to be his crowning achievement, but only four of the proposed ten volumes were completed before his death in Cambridge.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jean-louis-rodolphe-agassiz-dlb (342 words)

	Louis Agassiz
		Agassiz was an inspiring teacher who preached and practiced a philosophy of education that was revolutionary in his day.
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (pronounced "Ag-a-see"), born May 20, 1807, was the son of a Protestant pastor in Motier, a village on Lake Morat in western Switzerland.
		Agassiz was a burly man nearly six feet tall, with a broad handsome face and a sunny disposition.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/700-799/nb756.htm (651 words)

	Louis Agassiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harvard's pioneering geologist Louis Agassiz was the first to propose that continental glaciers--not the remnants of Noah's Flood as early settlers had imagined--polished the state's bedrock and deposited its enormous boulders and sand plains.
		Agassiz spent much of his free time in New Hampshire where several historic and natural landmarks today bear his name including Mt. Agassiz in Bethlehem NH and the Agassiz Basin gorge also known as Indian Leap in Woodstock, NH.
		Agassiz made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacial activity and extinct fishes.
	www.heartofnh.com /LegendsLore/LouisAgassiz.html (447 words)

	The Agassiz Outcrop, Ellsworth - Maine Geological Survey
		The Agassiz Outcrop in Ellsworth (Figure 1), now a National Historic Landmark, was featured prominently in his works on glaciation in North America.
		Agassiz turned to the study of glaciers in 1836 after his return to Switzerland where he was a professor at the University.
		Agassiz noted many of the features we now recognize as being of glacial origin, such as U-shaped valleys, large glacial erratic boulders, grooves and striations on bedrock, and mounds of debris called moraines.
	www.state.me.us /doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/bedrock/sites/jan04.htm (1269 words)

	Louis Agassiz...SciPeeps.com
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists.
		Agassiz, as early as 1829, planned the publication of the work which, more than any other, laid the foundation of his world-wide fame.
		His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hotel des Neuchatelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood; and the pine-trees which shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.
	www.scipeeps.com /louisagassiz.html (1808 words)

	Essays Papers -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Motier, Switzerland on May 28, 1807.
		Born the son of a Protestant pastor, Louis Agassiz was raised in a religious environment but clearly possessed a deep interest in natural history and science.
		Louis Agassiz commenced his education in natural history at the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, and Munich (Lurie x).
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	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
		Agassiz, L. [Study of the soft parts of American fresh water mollusks, etc.].
		Agassiz, L. [Correspondance between Louis Agassiz and Isacc Lea on the naiades].
		Agassiz, L. Observations on the rate of increase and other characters of fresh-water shells.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /~ksc/Malacologists/AgassizL.html (191 words)

	(Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geologist, born in Motier-en-Vuly, W Switzerland, the father of Alexander Agassiz.
		Elizabeth was a naturalist and teacher, and later became president of the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women and its successor, Radcliffe College (1894).
		Agassiz was a popular lecturer who opposed Darwin's theories on religious grounds, and continued to teach, publish, and make zoological expeditions until his death.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9177104 (234 words)

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