Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Wikipedia
Born: March 22, 1785, Dent, United Kingdom
Died: January 27, 1873 (age 87 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Academic advisors: Thomas Jones and John Dawson
Influenced: Charles Darwin, George Julius Poulett Scrope, and William Hopkins
Notable students: Charles Darwin, George Peacock, William Hopkins, and more