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Swiss Geologists: Swiss Paleontologists, Louis Agassiz, Jean-Andr Deluc, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Peter Ziegler, Lukas Hottinger(English)

Swiss Geologists: Swiss Paleontologists, Louis Agassiz, Jean-Andr Deluc, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Peter Ziegler, Lukas Hottinger(English)

          
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Swiss paleontologists, Louis Agassiz, Jean-Andre Deluc, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Peter Ziegler, Lukas Hottinger, Victor Goldschmidt, Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, Alfred Rittmann, Arnold Henry Guyot, Francois De Loys, Bernard Chouet, Oswald Heer, Toni Hagen, Albert Heim, Francois Jules Pictet de la Rive, Emile Argand, Jean de Charpentier, Rudolf Trumpy, Jules Marcou, Hans Georg Stehlin, Bernhard Studer, Amanz Gressly, Pierre Jean Edouard Desor, Manfred Reichel, Maurice Lugeon, Eugene Renevier, Arnold Escher von der Linth. Excerpt: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 - December 14, 1873) was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchatel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States. Louis Agassiz was born in Motier (now part of Haut-Vully) in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne. Having adopted medicine as his profession, he studied successively at the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich; while there he extended his knowledge of natural history, especially of botany. In 1829 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Erlangen, and in 1830 that of doctor of medicine at Munich. Moving to Paris he fell under the tutelage of Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier, who launched him on his careers of geology and zoology respectively. Previously he had not paid special attention to the study of ichthyology, but it soon became the great focus of his life's work. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote, "Somebody - Dr. Angell, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156633175
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Swiss Paleontologists, Louis Agassiz, Jean-Andr Deluc, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Peter Ziegler, Lukas Hottinger
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1156633176
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr


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