A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

Agassiz served as a non-resident lecturer at Cornell while also being on faculty at Harvard.

The Cambridge elementary school north of Harvard University was named in his honor and the surrounding neighborhood became known as " Agassiz " as a result.

For example Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard was a believer in Agassiz's polygenism.

* Louis Agassiz Correspondence, Houghton Library, Harvard University

In 1982, Harvard awarded him with the title of Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.

Agassiz eventually immigrated to the United States and taught at Harvard University in 1846.

The experiment employed eleven scintillation detectors arranged within a circle 460 meters in diameter on the grounds of the Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory.

The fourteen member full-time Harvard faculty included Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray ( sciences ), Cornelius Conway Felton ( classics ), James Walker ( religion and philosophy ), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( belles lettres ).

In Boston, at a banquet attended by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis Agassiz, Boston mayor Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Harvard president James Walker, and other luminaries, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes toasted " Paul Morphy, the World Chess Champion ".

The iron lung, often referred to in the early days as the " Drinker respirator ", was invented by Phillip Drinker ( 18941972 ) and Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior, professors of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Walcott's interest in fossils led to his acquaintance with Louis Agassiz of Harvard, who encouraged him to work in the field of paleontology ; later that year, he began work as the assistant to the state palaeontologist, James Hall.

James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, currently chairs the UCS Board of Directors.

The Oak Ridge Observatory, also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts, and was formerly operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a facility of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ( SAO ).

* Bok, B. J., Ewen, H. I., & Heeschen, D. S., " The George R. Agassiz radio telescope of Harvard Observatory ", Astronomical Journal, Vol.

He sent his collection of mollusks, echinoderms, and fossils to Louis Agassiz at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology ; plants went to Asa Gray at Harvard ; archaeological and ethnological material went to the Smithsonian.

Morse was recommended by Philip Pearsall Carpenter to Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ) at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University for his intellectual qualities and talent at drawing, and served as his assistant in charge of conservation, documentation and drawing collections of mollusks and brachiopods until 1861.

The bridges not named for roads they carried were named for prominent local figures ' families at the time of construction of the Back Bay Fens: Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Agassiz, a prominent scientist at Harvard, whose daughter Ida married Higginson.

The 2009 president was James J. McCarthy, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University.

Turner held the Alexander Agassiz Professorship at Harvard University and was a Curator of Malacology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where she also served as co-editor of the scientific journal Johnsonia.

After practising for three or four years at Macon, Georgia, he entered Harvard University, and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz.

After graduating at Harvard, LeConte in 1851 accompanied Agassiz on an expedition to study the Florida Reef.

This even included many students of Agassiz, including Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard.

With the aid of a grant of money from the King of Prussia, Agassiz crossed the Atlantic in the autumn of 1846 with the twin purposes of investigating the natural history and geology of North America and delivering a course of 12 lectures on “ The Plan of Creation as shown in the Animal Kingdom ,” by invitation from J.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

All of North Dakota is in the Northern Lights Council ( NLC ), formed in 1974 when several councils ( Red River Valley Council-Fargo, Lake Agassiz Council-Grand Forks, Missouri Valley Council-Bismarck, and Great Plains Council-Dickinson ) were merged into one.

The city, both lakes, and the river lie in the Traverse Gap, the bed of ancient, south-flowing Glacial River Warren, the outlet to Glacial Lake Agassiz which, when drained, became the valley of the north-flowing Red River of the North.

Lake Agassiz was an immense glacial lake located in the middle of the northern part of North America.

The fertile soils of the Red River Valley, now drained by the Red River of the North, are formed from lacustrine deposits of silt from Lake Agassiz.

Large influxes of low density meltwater from Lake Agassiz and deglaciation in North America are thought to have led to a disruption of deep water formation and subsidence in the extreme North Atlantic and caused the climate period in Europe known as the Younger Dryas.

It appears to have been triggered by a vast meltwater lake – Lake Agassiz – emptying into the North Atlantic, disrupting the thermohaline circulation.

Similar processes on a very large scale occurred during the deglaciation of North America after the last ice age ( e. g. Lake Agassiz ), and presumably at earlier times, although the geological record is not well preserved.

The vast lake, Lake Agassiz, covered much of North Dakota, Manitoba and Minnesota during prehistoric times.

In 1847 he went to North America as travelling geologist for the Jardin des Plantes, and in the following year in Boston he joined Agassiz, whom he had met in Switzerland, and accompanied him to the Lake Superior region.

* Squalicorax kaupi ( Agassiz, 1843 )-from the late Santonian-late Maastrichtian of North America, New Zealand, Japan, Africa, Europe, Kazakhstan, Jordan and other places.

* Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric glacial lake in North America

* Lake Agassiz Park ( Stanford Road and 6th Avenue North )-hockey rinks, skating rink, softball / baseball fields, basketball courts, play equipment, restrooms

This distribution makes sense in that all these areas were linked by the large lakes that formed as the glaciers retreated from North America at the end of the last ice age ( e. g., Lake Agassiz, Lake Iroquois ).

It has been postulated that the deluge myth may be based on a sudden rise in sea levels caused by the rapid draining of prehistoric Lake Agassiz at the end of the last Ice Age, about 8, 400 years ago.

It reached its largest volume around 8, 500 years ago, when joined with Lake Agassiz.

One example of this is the 8. 2 kiloyear event, which associated with the draining of Glacial Lake Agassiz.