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Louis Agassiz

1807 - 1873

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( AG-ə-see; French: [aɡasi]) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) 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. After studying with Georges Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel. He emigrated to the United States in 1847 after visiting Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Agassiz is the 166th most popular biologist (down from 105th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Biologist.

Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-born American naturalist and geologist. He is most famous for his work on glaciers and for his theory of the Ice Age.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louis Agassiz ranks 166 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, Mario Capecchi, and Henry Walter Bates. After him are Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Leland H. Hartwell, William Bateson, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and John Ray.

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Among people born in 1807, Louis Agassiz ranks 5. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi, Robert E. Lee, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and Jules Grévy. After him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lajos Batthyány, Joseph Petzval, Anthony Mary Claret, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Bezmiâlem Sultan, and Harriet Taylor Mill. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Agassiz ranks 15. Before him are John of Saxony, Edwin Landseer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Vasil Levski, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. After him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Émile Gaboriau, Jean Chacornac, Adam Sedgwick, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, and Sheridan Le Fanu.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 105 out of 1,015. Before him are François Vatel (1631), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Brother Roger (1915), Anders Arborelius (1949), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), and Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270). After him are Louis Chevrolet (1878), Jakob Steiner (1796), Henri Guisan (1874), Gianni Infantino (1970), Emil Abderhalden (1877), and Jacques Dubochet (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 7. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), Carl Nägeli (1817), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560). After him are Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), and Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810).

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