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    Ignaz (Ignace) Venetz (1788 — 1859) was a Swiss engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist; as one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major...
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  • Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (1793–1848), Bohemian botanist Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879–1943), Hungarian adventurer and convicted con artist Ignaz Venetz...
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  • Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Ignaz Venetz-Sitten (known as Venetz, 1788–1859), a Swiss engineer and glacial geologist who,...
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    58 Mya and continues to the present day. In 1821, a Swiss engineer, Ignaz Venetz, presented an article in which he suggested the presence of traces of...
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    wife in the little village of Bex, where he met Jean de Charpentier and Ignaz Venetz. Their recently announced glacial theories had startled the scientific...
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    ages and glaciation as a geological force took a while to be accepted. Ignaz Venetz (1788–1859), a Swiss engineer, naturalist and glaciologist was one of...
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    2 km in length. To stop the rapid rise of waters, the canton engineer Ignaz Venetz decided to drill a sluice hole through the ice, tunneling from both upstream...
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  • Venets (redirect from Venetz)
    municipality Venets Transmitter Venets, Stara Zagora Province Venet, a surname Ignaz Venetz, Swiss scientist This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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    initial rejection, Perraudin eventually convinced Ignaz Venetz that it might be worth studying. Venetz convinced Charpentier, who in turn convinced the...
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  • William Parry starts his second voyage to find the Northwest Passage. Ignaz Venetz proposes his ice age theory. Pierre Berthier discovers bauxite. Mary...
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    the lake measured about 2 km in length. On 10 May 1818, the engineer Ignaz Venetz was called by the canton. To stop the rapid rise of waters, he decided...
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    Bishop of Sion in 1594, whencefrom comes the coat of arms of Sitten/Sion Ignaz Venetz (1788–1859), Swiss civil engineer, botanist and glaciologist Anton von...
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    grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1971 after Ignaz Venetz-Sitten (known as Venetz, 1788–1859), Swiss engineer and glacial geologist who, in...
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    Giétro Glacier in the Val de Bagnes, creating a lake. Despite engineer Ignaz Venetz's efforts to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically...
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  • ice ages Sigurður Þórarinsson 1912 1983 John Tyndall 1820 1893 Studied glacier motion Ignaz Venetz 1788 1859 Suggested the existence of past ice ages...
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    total of 120 days with average of 6 hours per week during that year. Ignaz Venetz (1788–1859), glaciologist and botanist "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden...
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  • Aiguille du Grépon 3482 Alps Albert Mummery, Alexander Burgener and Benedikt Venetz 28 Jul 1882 Dent du Géant 4013 Alps Baptiste, Daniel & Jean-Joseph Maquignaz [fr]...
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  • Joseph Von 451 Sefstrom, Nils Gabriel 452 Purkinje, Jan Evangelista 453 Venetz, Ignatz 454 Pelletier, Pierre Joseph 455 Fresnel, Augustin Jean 456 Poncelet...
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