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Agassiz and eventually
* 1837 – Louis Agassiz begins his glaciation studies which eventually demonstrate that the Earth has had at least one ice age

Agassiz and immigrated
Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father in 1849.

Agassiz and United
After Agassiz came to the United States he became a prolific writer in what has been later termed the genre of scientific racism.
The cydippid ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860 was named for him ; it was discovered in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz who was working as an engineer on a ship surveying the United States / Canada boundary between Washington State and British Columbia.
Agassiz Township is a township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
A return of the ice for some time offered a reprieve, but after retreating north of the Canada – United States border around 10, 000 years ago, Lake Agassiz refilled.
After Louis Agassiz came to the United States he became a prolific writer in what has been later termed the genre of scientific racism.
In 1855 he became professor of geology and palaeontology at the polytechnic school of Zürich, but relinquished this office in 1859, and in 1861 again returned to the United States, when be assisted Louis Agassiz in founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
* Agassiz, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a neighborhood in the United States
Humphreys Peak ( latitude 35-20 ' 47 N ) and Agassiz Peak ( latitude 35-19 ' 33 N ) are the two furthest South lying mountain peaks in the contiguous United States which rise to a height of more than 12, 000 feet above sea level.
Polygenism came into mainstream scientific thought in America in the mid 19th century with the work of several corresponding natural scientists such as Samuel George Morton and Charles Pickering as well as Egyptologist George Gliddon, the surgeon Josiah Clark Nott and more prominently the paleontologist and geologist Louis Agassiz in the United States.

Agassiz and taught
From 1947 to 1960, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley, where in 1952, he became Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages.

Agassiz and at
Agassiz served as a non-resident lecturer at Cornell while also being on faculty at Harvard.
According to Agassiz the conditions in which particular creatures live “ are the conditions necessary to their maintenance, and what among organized beings is essential to their temporal existence must be at least one of the conditions under which they were created ”.
Agassiz questioned how fish of the same species live in lakes well separated with no joining waterway, Agassiz concluded they were created at both locations.
According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.
For example Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard was a believer in Agassiz's polygenism.
* Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz, by Mabel Louise Robinson ( 1930 ) – free download at manybooks. net
Agassiz was to come to Washington at the government's expense to plan the organization with the others.
Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".
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 ".
Ulen is the southern terminus of the Agassiz Recreational Trail, a 53-mile multi-use trail built on an abandoned railroad grade which has its northern terminus at Crookston, Minnesota.
In 2008, Crookston-based Agassiz Energy, LLC, announced that it had postponed indefinitely its plans for a $ 58. 5 million ethanol plant at the junction of the former Great Northern and Soo Line railroads, near the interchange of U. S. Routes 59 and 2.
Tenney is located in the flat basin of prehistoric Lake Agassiz, a glacial lake that existed at the end of the last Ice Age.
The Red River flows across the flat lakebed of the ancient glacial Lake Agassiz, an enormous glacial lake created at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation from meltwaters of the Laurentide ice sheet.
His attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 1840 when he met Louis Agassiz at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to Switzerland, where he was particularly impressed by Bernhard Studer's theories, and also to Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data.
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.
Agassiz denied that species originated in single pairs, whether at a single location or at many.
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.
Polygeny was supported by thinkers of many backgrounds, such as the zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist Louis Agassiz, and by later thinkers who interpreted Darwin's theory to imply that races evolved at different times or stages.

Agassiz and Harvard
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 ( Harvard North ) ( Area 8 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the south and east by Kirkland Street, and on the west by Massachusetts Avenue.
The Cambridge elementary school north of Harvard University was named in his honor and the surrounding neighborhood became known as " Agassiz " as a result.
* Louis Agassiz Correspondence, Houghton Library, Harvard University
In 1982, Harvard awarded him with the title of Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.
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 ).
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.
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.

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