Agassiz

[ ag-uh-see; French a-ga-see ]

noun

1. Alexander, 1835–1910, U.S. oceanographer and marine zoologist, born in Switzerland.
2. his father (Jean) Louis (Ro·dolphe) [zhah, n, lwee , r, aw-, dawlf], 1807–73, U.S. zoologist and geologist, born in Switzerland.
3. Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822–1907, U.S. author and educator, a founder and the first president (1894–1903) of Radcliffe College.
4. Lake Agassiz, a lake existing in the prehistoric Pleistocene Epoch in central North America. 700 miles (1,127 km) long.

Agassiz

/ aɡasi /

noun

1. AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe18071873MUSSwissHISTORY: historianSCIENCE: geologist Jean Louis Rodolphe (ʒɑ̃ lwi rɔdɔlf). 1807–73, Swiss natural historian and geologist, settled in the US after 1846

Agassiz

/ ăg′ə-sē /

1. Swiss-born American naturalist whose studies of glaciers and their movement introduced the idea of the ice age in 1840. Agassiz later revolutionized science education in the United States by emphasizing direct observation of the natural environment.

Example Sentences

However, others remained valorised such as Louis Agassiz, an advocate of scientific racism, who has an Alpine peak named after him.

From Reuters

The eulogy pronounced on the great zoölogist Agassiz was well deserved.

From Literature

Both were posed shirtless and photographed from several angles in images commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, whose theories on racial difference were used to support slavery in the U.S.

From Seattle Times

The 19th-century naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz commissioned daguerreotype portraits of enslaved people in an attempt to prove their inferiority.

From New York Times

In the mid-19th century, Louis Agassiz, a prominent Harvard professor of zoology and geology, espoused theories concluding, according to the report, that Black people were “at the bottom of a racial hierarchy ordained in nature.”

From Washington Post