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18 de jun. de 2024 · Louis 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.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (born Dec. 5, 1822, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died June 27, 1907, Arlington Heights, Mass.) was an American naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Cary was related to many of Boston’s leading families.
Hace 1 día · Craig and Shufeldt instead cited illustrations by American artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Japanese artist K. Hayashi as more accurate depictions of the bird. Illustrations of the passenger pigeon were often drawn after stuffed birds, and Charles R. Knight is the only "serious" artist known to have drawn the species from life.
Hace 3 días · Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz gave megalodon its scientific name in his seminal 1833-1843 work Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (Research on fossil fish). He named it Carcharias megalodon in an 1835 illustration of the holotype and additional teeth, congeneric with the modern sand tiger shark .
Hace 2 días · Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 m (328 ft) per year. [55] Agassiz studied glacier movement in the 1840s at the Unteraar Glacier where he found the glacier moved 100 m (328 ft) per year, more rapidly in the middle than at the edges.
22 de jun. de 2024 · Agassiz decided he quite liked America, taking up a post at Harvard. There he became a powerful ally. Margaretta finally achieved the recognition she desired. In 1849 her cousin Robert Hare presented her research on cicadas to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Louis Agassiz publicly endorsed her conclusions.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Definitions of Louis Agassiz noun United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
