Agassiz

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

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

Agassiz

/ aɡasi /

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 /

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.

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On the 8th of August, Mr. Agassiz set out with a friend, intending to return the same evening.

Agassiz represents the Fraser delta and Kamloops the southern interior district.

At Charleston he again met Agassiz, and once more records the profound impression which the American zoologist produced upon him.

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money.

Mr. Agassiz declined the gracious offer on the ground that he had just Planned a summer's tour through his own back yard.

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