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    Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (/ˈæɡəsi/ AG-ə-see; French: [aɡasi]) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist...
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    Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day...
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    Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist...
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    co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from 1865...
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  • Louis Agassiz Shaw II (1906–1987) was an American socialite, writer and murderer. Shaw was born to Robert Gould Shaw II and Mary Hannington; the Shaws...
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    Baldwin Elementary School, known as the Agassiz School until 2002. The neighborhood was formerly named for Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), a Harvard biologist and...
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    1823 by William H. Keating, it was named by Warren Upham in 1879 after Louis Agassiz, the then-recently deceased (1873) founder of glaciology, when Upham...
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    A statue of the 19th-century biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz was previously installed on the exterior of Building 420 (formerly Jordan Hall), in...
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  • Louis Agassiz, Charles Pickering (Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution, 1848). Cuvier enumerated three races, Pritchard seven, Agassiz twelve...
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  • Louis Agassiz was the father of the Rev. Louis Benjamin Rudolph Agassiz, who was the father of the naturalist Louis Agassiz and Auguste Agassiz. Louis's son...
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  • Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Agassiz may also...
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    abstraction. While the parable is based on students' recollections of Louis Agassiz's teaching style, Pound's retelling diverges from these sources in several...
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    Ptychodus (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    of the 19th century, several authors including Swiss paleontologist Louis Agassiz eventually demonstrated the affinities of Ptychodus teeth with those...
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  • Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr. (September 25, 1886 – August 27, 1940) was an instructor of physiology at the School of Public Health of Harvard University, where...
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    1879, Lilbourne Winchell named it Agassiz Needle for Harvard University professor of zoology and geology Louis Agassiz. Later, the USGS recognized it by...
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    Megalodon (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    terrestrial layers and uplifted by geologic activity. Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz gave megalodon its scientific name in his seminal 1833-1843 work Recherches...
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    Science came to be introduced into our system through the influence of Louis Agassiz, who had much to do in shaping the plans of this School.": 48  Whether...
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    Nazism and race Racial hygiene Whiteness studies Négritude Writers Louis Agassiz John Baker Erwin Baur John Beddoe Robert Bennett Bean François Bernier...
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    Oscar (fish) (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    fish in Europe and the U.S. The species was originally described by Louis Agassiz in 1831 as Lobotes ocellatus, as he mistakenly believed the species...
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    River shark (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    glyphis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) (speartooth shark) †Glyphis hastalis Agassiz, 1843 †Glyphis pagoda (Noetling, 1901) Glyphis siamensis (Steindachner...
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    Cosmopolitodus (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    the narrow and broad-form variations respectively by Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in his 1843 paper Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, although some...
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    endowed the school's chair of Oriental Languages and Literature named for Louis Agassiz on September 18, 1872 only months before Tompkins died. His initial...
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    Otodus angustidens (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    megatoothed shark,the famous Otodus megalodon. The Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, first identified this shark as a species of genus Carcharodon in 1835...
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    Cannonball jellyfish (category Taxa named by Louis Agassiz)
    food List of delicacies List of dried foods List of types of seafood Agassiz, Louis (1860). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of...
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    former university friend Louis Agassiz (1801–1873) and Jean de Charpentier. Schimper, Charpentier and possibly Venetz convinced Agassiz that there had been...
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    another. Rafinesque wrote Ichthyologic Ohiensis in 1820. In addition, Louis Agassiz of Switzerland established his reputation through the study of freshwater...
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    named in honor of Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist. Many visitors to Flagstaff incorrectly assume that Agassiz Peak is Humphreys...
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    Bay. The building was designed for Alexander Agassiz (son of Harvard University naturalist Louis Agassiz) and his brother-in-law Henry Lee Higginson (son...
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  • Nazism and race Racial hygiene Whiteness studies Négritude Writers Louis Agassiz John Baker Erwin Baur John Beddoe Robert Bennett Bean François Bernier...
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    pulled small and slow-moving prey into their mouths. Swiss anatomist Louis Agassiz received some fossils of bony armored fish from Scotland in the 1830s...
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