Adam Sedgwick FRS (/ˈsɛdʒwɪk/; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He...

nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick. Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and...

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Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian. The name Paleozoic was first used by Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) in 1838 to describe the Cambrian and Ordovician periods...

Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in North...

discontinued. The society was founded in 1819 by John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick and Edward Clarke, is Cambridge's oldest scientific society. Its prime...

Robert Sedgwick is an American actor. He is the brother of actress Kyra Sedgwick. Sedgwick graduated from Bennington College in 1984. That year, he made...

Sedgwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), British geologist Adam Sedgwick (1854–1913), British zoologist...

paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1835. In 1835, Adam Sedgwick began naming the Cambrian System, "recognizing the first rich assemblage...

helped to make Green's 1828 work famous. About 1833, through meeting Adam Sedgwick at Barmouth and joining him in several excursions, Hopkins became intensely...

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to establish the position of the Woodwardian Professor of Geology. Adam Sedgwick began the process of expanding the collection, and purchased several...

Wales, where rocks of this age were first studied. It was named by Adam Sedgwick in 1835, who divided it into three groups; the Lower, Middle, and Upper...

539 million years and 488.3 million years ago; in 1835, the geologist Adam Sedgwick named this geological period the Cambrian, after studying rocks of that...

men, including the future physician John Haygarth, and Adam Sedgwick's father, Richard Sedgwick, read with him before going up to Cambridge. But the profession...

an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick. Jones was born at Berriew, Montgomeryshire, in Wales. On completing...

past presidents. These include pioneers of geology William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche,...

College, Cambridge. At Cambridge Jukes studied geology under Professor Adam Sedgwick. Between 1839 and 1840, Jukes geologically surveyed Newfoundland. A...

and in 1905 William Bateson coined the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick. The study of genetics carried into an experiment isolating DNA. In...

the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and the Godwin Laboratory. The department is the home of the Sedgwick Club, which was founded in memory of Adam Sedgwick...

De la Beche was the principal antagonist of Roderick Murchison and Adam Sedgwick in what has been labelled The Great Devonian Controversy. He frequently...

joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then on 4 August travelled with him to spend a fortnight mapping strata in Wales. After leaving Sedgwick in Wales...

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also been used for single-tenure professorships. Alfred Newton (1866) Adam Sedgwick (1907) John Stanley Gardiner (1909) James Gray (1937) Carl Frederick...

past ages, and geologists such as Adam Sedgwick incorporated Werner's ideas into concepts of catastrophism; Sedgwick inspired his university student Charles...

becoming one of its most active members. His colleagues there included Adam Sedgwick, William Conybeare, William Buckland, William Fitton, Charles Lyell...

natural history works. In 1842, he was employed for a short time by Adam Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, and...

undergraduate at Cambridge, through the influence of Edward Clarke and Adam Sedgwick he became interested in mineralogy and geology. During the winter of...

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Filled with zeal for science, he studied catastrophist geology with Adam Sedgwick. In December 1831, he joined the Beagle expedition as a gentleman naturalist...