Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American biologist and geologist
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS FRSE was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a PhD at Erlangen and a medical degree in Munich.... Wikipedia
Born: May 28, 1807, Haut-Vully, Switzerland
Died: December 14, 1873 (age 66 years), Cambridge, MA
Education: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1830) and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1828)
Spouse: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (m. 1850–1873)
Academic advisors: Georges Cuvier, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and Ignaz Döllinger
Influenced: David Starr Jordan, William James, Carl Vogt, and more
Books
Études sur les glaciers
1840
A journey in Brazil
1868
Thayer Expedition: Scientific Results of a Journey in Brazil
1870
Catalogus systematicus ectyporum echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomensis : secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus
1840
Report on the Florida Reefs: Accompanied by Illustrations of Florida Corals
Bibliographia Zoologiae Et Geologiae, Corrected, Enlarged and Ed. by H. E. Strickland (and W. Jardine)
1848