AGASSIZ, ALEXANDER

ăgˈəsē, 1835–1910, American naturalist and industrialist, b. Neuchâtel, Switzerland; son of Louis Agassiz, stepson of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. He came to the United States in 1849 and studied at Harvard, receiving degrees in engineering (B.S., 1857) and natural history (B.S., 1862). Throughout his life he was connected in various capacities with Harvard. In 1871 he consolidated the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior and, as president, successfully developed the combined interests. He adopted safety and welfare measures relating to the mines. Agassiz contributed much of his fortune to science—chiefly in endowments to Harvard and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology which his father helped to found there. In 1877 he began oceanographic explorations, including detailed observations of the Pacific and the Caribbean. Noting that the deep-sea animals of the two are similar, he suggested that the Caribbean was a bay of the Pacific that had been cut off in the Cretaceous period by the rise of the Panama isthmus. His chief work is Revision of the Echini (2 vol., 1872–74).

See study by his son G. R. Agassiz (1913).

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Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz: With a Sketch of His Life and Work
Book by G. R. Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913
Subjects: Agassiz, Alexander--1835-1910
LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ CHAPTER I DESCENT AND BOYHOOD AGASSIZ is not an uncommon name in that part of Switzerland...branch. Here, for many generations, "Les Agassiz de Bavois" appear to have been small landed...
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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
Book by Edward Lurie; University of Chicago Press, 1960
Subjects: Agassiz, Louis--1807-1873
...Boston, 1873 , pp. 4-5; G. R. Agassiz ed. , Alexander Agassiz , pp. 84-90. 38. New York Times , March 12...Boston Courier , December 15, 19, 1873; G. R. Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz , pp. 128-29. 55. James Russell Lowell...
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Correspondence between Spencer Fullerton Baird and Louis Agassiz--Two Pioneer American Naturalists
Book by Elmer Charles Herber, Spencer Fullerton Baird; Smithsonian Institution, 1963
Subjects: Agassiz, Louis--1807-1873--Correspondence, Baird, Spencer Fullerton--1823-1887--Correspondence, Naturalists--United States--Correspondence, Science--United States--History, Zoology--United States
INDEX Acanthias, 204 Agassiz, Alexander, 135 , 145 , 155 , 187 Agassiz, Louis, 5 , 9 - 22 ; his...180 Axolotl, 64 Bache, Alexander Dallas, 43 , 46 Baird...Boston, Mass., lectures by Agassiz in, 23 ; transporting A...
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Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography, Including Selections from His Correspondence with Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and Others
Book by William Healey Dall; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915
Subjects: Baird Family, Baird, Spencer Fullerton--1823-1887
...California, was completing the publication of his projected State Reports, at his own expense, with the cooperation of Alexander Agassiz. Baird was drawn into the work by their desire to have him prepare the two projected volumes on the Land and Water...
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Alexander von Humboldt
Book by L. Kellner; Oxford University Press, 1963
Subjects: Humboldt, Alexander Von--1769-1859
...Briefwechsel und Gesprache Alexander von Humboldts mit...Berlin, 1861. Louis Agassiz, His life and correspondence...by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz , in 2 vols...Ewald Banse, Alexander von Humboldt, Erschliesser...Leipzig, 1931. Alexander Herzen, Erinnerungen...Holder, Louis Agassiz, His life and work...
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Alexander Von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804-2004
Journal article by Kent Mathewson; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Influence, Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Works, Naturalists--Influence, Naturalists--Works, North America--Evaluation
...George Bancroft, the physicist Alexander Dallas Bache, and the political...Letters from the naturalist Louis Agassiz, the oceanographer Matthew...century (1850-1870), such as Agassiz, Guyot, Maury, and George...historian and geologist Louis Agassiz (Ferrell 1981). Both left...
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A Troubled Marriage of Discourses: Science Writing and Travel Narrative in Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz's a Journey in Brazil
Journal article by Linda S. Bergmann; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 18, 1995
Subjects: Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, Agassiz, Louis (1807-73), Brazil, Diaries, Expeditions, Literary criticism, Science, Travel
...century American scientist Louis Agassiz and his wife Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, offers such an uneasy combination...of the Beagle (1839), or Alexander von Humboldts and Aime Bonplands...as a scientist. Elizabeth Agassiz had every intention of providing...
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Why Was Humboldt Forgotten in the United States?
Journal article by Sandra Nichols; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Evaluation, Naturalists--Evaluation, United States--Social aspects
...for all time. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, the great benefactor. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT...Professor Louis Agassiz set the tone...2004. REFERENCES Agassiz, L. 1869. Address...of the Birth of Alexander von Humboldt...
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Exploring the Americas in a Humboldt Digital Library
Journal article by Frank Baron, Detlev Doherr; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Digital libraries--Services, Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, Baron, Baron--Works, Naturalists--Works, Universities and colleges--Alliances and partnerships, Universities and colleges--Germany, Universities and colleges--United States, University of Kansas--Alliances and partnerships
...REFERENCES Baron, F. 2005. From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church...Baron, F., and C. Hare, eds. 2003. Alexander von Humboldt in Washington (1804...Ette, O. 2002. Weltbewusstsein: Alexander von Humboldt und das unvollendete Projekt...
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The Search for Humboldt
Journal article by Laura Dassow Walls; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World (Book)--Book reviews, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Book)--Book reviews
...Dassow Walls HUMBOLDTS COSMOS: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin...Silliman, Asa Gray, and Louis Agassiz, among others--Sachs singles...Brown. Kellner, L. 1963. Alexander von Humboldt. London: Oxford...Humboldt: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859...
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Louis Agassiz
Magazine article by Jeffrey A. Lee; Focus, Vol. 47, Winter 2002
Subjects: Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, Geographers--Biography, Natural history--History, Scientists--Biography
...time to studies of zoology, Agassiz is the person most responsible...practiced medicine. In 1832 Agassiz spent time in Paris, studying...met the German geographer, Alexander von Humboldt, and the two...Agassizs career. Later in 1832, Agassiz became a professor at a new...
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Stories Behind the Paintings
Magazine article by Roger Di Silvestro; National Wildlife, Vol. 32, October 1994
Subjects: Audubon, John James--Works, Catlin, George--Works, Seton, Ernest Thompson--Works, Wildlife artists--Appreciation, Wilson, Alexander--Works
...scientific invectives, particularly from supporters of the late Alexander Wilson, a Philadelphia bird artist who had died in 1813...exhibited it. One of Setons contemporaries, artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, nearly died in an attempt to paint wildlife. In...
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Seeing Corals with the Eye of Reason
Magazine article by Richard Milner, Jennifer A. Lane; Natural History, Vol. 118, February 2009
Subjects: Coral reefs, Earthquakes, Luxury homes, Museums
...formation remained contentious. Alexander Agassiz, son of the anti-evolutionist Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, spent forty years and his...Madness: (liarles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Comi...
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Whoi Scientists Win a Boatload of Honors for Pioneering Research
Magazine article; Oceanus, Vol. 45, July 2007
Subjects: Appointments & personnel changes, Awards & honors, Oceanography, Research & development--R&D
...Science. Jim Ledwell won the 2007 Alexander Agassiz Medal by the U.S. National Academy...ocean. Established in 1913, the Agassiz Medal is awarded every three years...change. Past WHOI recipients of the Agassiz Medal include Henry Bigelow, Columbus...
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This View of Stephen Jay Gould
Magazine article by Edwin Barber, Niles Eldredge, Alan Dershowitz, I. Michael Heyman; Natural History, Vol. 108, November 1999
Subjects: Anthropology, Biology, Essays, Evolution, Gould, Stephen Jay, Paleontology, Scientists
...amiably with contemporary opponents of the teaching of evolution, sharing a cold drink on a hot day. RICHARD LEWONTIN Alexander Agassiz Research Professor of Zoology, Harvard University I want to remark on an aspect of Steve Goulds creative activity...
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encyclopedia articles on: Agassiz Alexander  - 5 results

 
 
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Agassiz, Alexander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGASSIZ, ALEXANDER ag se, 1835 1910, American naturalist and industrialist, b. Neuchatel, Switzerland; son of Louis Agassiz , stepson of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz . He came to the United States in 1849 and studied at Harvard...
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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...b. Boston. In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz , and together they established the pioneering Agassiz School for girls in Boston (1856 65...husband (1885); and, with her stepson Alexander Agassiz , Seaside Studies in Natural History...
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Agassiz, Louis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGASSIZ, LOUIS (Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz)zhaN lwe rodolf ag se, 1807...and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz practiced medicine briefly, but...where he became a close friend of Alexander von Humboldt and studied fossil...
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North Dakota
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the south, that is the floor of the former glacial Lake Agassiz. Treeless, except along the rivers, and without surface...struggle between the agrarian groups and the corporate interests. Alexander McKenzie of the Northern Pacific was for many years the most...
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North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Arctic Archipelago, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Alexander Archipelago, and the Aleutian Islands are the principal groups...Bonneville (see under Bonneville Salt Flats ), Lahontan , Agassiz , and Algonquin, were formed by glacial meltwater; their...


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