Adam Sedgwick (/ˈsɛdʒwɪk/; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed...

nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick. Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and...

Robert Sedgwick is an American actor. He is the brother of actress Kyra Sedgwick. Sedgwick graduated from Bennington College in 1984. That year, he made...

Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in North...

Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian. The name Paleozoic was first used by Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) in 1838 to describe the Cambrian and Ordovician periods...

paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1835. In 1835, Adam Sedgwick began naming the Cambrian System, "recognizing the first rich assemblage...

discontinued. The society was founded in 1819 by John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick and Edward Clarke, is Cambridge's oldest scientific society. Its prime...

men, including the future physician John Haygarth, and Adam Sedgwick's father, Richard Sedgwick, read with him before going up to Cambridge. But the profession...

series" by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for 'Cymru' (Wales), where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed. Sedgwick identified...

and in 1905 William Bateson coined the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick. The study of genetics carried into an experiment isolating DNA. In...

Sedgwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), British geologist Adam Sedgwick (1854–1913), British zoologist...

539 million years and 488.3 million years ago; in 1835, the geologist Adam Sedgwick named this geological period the Cambrian, after studying rocks of that...

to establish the position of the Woodwardian Professor of Geology. Adam Sedgwick began the process of expanding the collection, and purchased several...

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past presidents. These include pioneers of geology William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche,...

the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and the Godwin Laboratory. The department is the home of the Sedgwick Club, which was founded in memory of Adam Sedgwick...

joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then on 4 August travelled with him to spend a fortnight mapping strata in Wales. After leaving Sedgwick in Wales...

past ages, and geologists such as Adam Sedgwick incorporated Werner's ideas into concepts of catastrophism; Sedgwick inspired his university student Charles...

an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick. Jones was born at Berriew, Montgomeryshire, in Wales. On completing...

friend of the Tory prime minister, Sir Robert Peel. In co-operation with Adam Sedgwick and Charles Lyell, he prepared the report leading to the establishment...

undergraduate at Cambridge, through the influence of Edward Clarke and Adam Sedgwick he became interested in mineralogy and geology. During the winter of...

Filled with zeal for science, he studied catastrophist geology with Adam Sedgwick. In December 1831, he joined the Beagle expedition as a gentleman naturalist...

and completed the stratigraphic column. For instance, in 1833 while Adam Sedgwick was mapping rocks that he had established were from the Cambrian Period...

of Adam Sedgwick to Charles Lyell, 9 April 1845, in Clark 1890, pp. 84–85 Vol. 2 Secord 2000, pp. 231–235, 238–240 Secord 2000, pp. 406–410 Sedgwick 1845...

helped to make Green's 1828 work famous. About 1833, through meeting Adam Sedgwick at Barmouth and joining him in several excursions, Hopkins became intensely...

becoming one of its most active members. His colleagues there included Adam Sedgwick, William Conybeare, William Buckland, William Fitton, Charles Lyell...

Shelley Mary Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan Sarah Siddons John Soane Adam Sedgwick Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh John Wedgwood Arthur Wellesley...

others at the time, including the influential geologist Adam Sedgwick, but by 1830 Sedgwick considered that the evidence suggested only local floods...

Sedgwick in 1905". The John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2008. The letter was to an Adam Sedgwick,...

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