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Bookmark or Share- Louis Agassiz - University of California Museum of PaleontologyThe son of a minister, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born on May 28, 1807 in the village of Môtier, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Agassiz was educated in the universities of Switzerland and Germany as a physician, like many naturalists of the time. He studied with prominent German biologists, including Oken and Döllinger.
- Louis Agassiz | Swiss-American Naturalist & Educator | BritannicaLouis Agassiz (born May 28, 1807, Motier, Switzerland—died December 14, 1873, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes.
- Lake Agassiz - WikipediaLake Agassiz (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə s i / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined.
- Agassiz, British Columbia - WikipediaAgassiz ( / ˈæɡəsi / AG-ə-see) [1] is a small community located in the Eastern Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada, about 97 kilometres east of Vancouver and 24 kilometres north-east of the city of Chilliwack. [2] The only town within the jurisdiction of the District Municipality of Kent, it contains the majority of Kent's ...
- Lake Agassiz | Map, Manitoba, & Facts | BritannicaLake Agassiz, largest of the ice-margin lakes that once covered what are now parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan in Canada and North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States. It was present in the Pleistocene Epoch (approximately 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) during the last two phases.
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