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    Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American...
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    degree in Munich. After studying with Georges Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University...
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    of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from 1865 to...
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  • The Alexander Agassiz Medal is awarded every three years by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for an original contribution in the science of oceanography...
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    February 12, 2021. Agassiz, G.R. 1913. Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz, with a sketch of his life and work, ed. by G.R. Agassiz. Houghton Mifflin...
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  • members of the Agassiz family, including: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822–1907), American educator and naturalist, wife of Louis Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910)...
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  • such as the scientists Louis and Alexander Agassiz, as well as the founder of the Longines watch firm, Auguste Agassiz. The early history of the family...
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    Back Bay. The building was designed for Alexander Agassiz (son of Harvard University naturalist Louis Agassiz) and his brother-in-law Henry Lee Higginson...
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    Milne-Edwards was the first to describe the genus in 1879 after his colleague Alexander Agassiz collected a juvenile male B. giganteus from the Gulf of Mexico. This...
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  • director Louis) Alexander Agassiz, a job which left Clark in charge of the day-to-day management of the MCZ when the younger Agassiz was afield. Miss...
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    by the USNS Eltanin as well as a redrawn version of a drawing by Alexander Agassiz which originally appeared in his 1888 Three Cruises of the Blake....
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    1883–1895 Othniel Charles Marsh 1895–1900 Wolcott Gibbs 1901–1907 Alexander Agassiz 1907–1913 Ira Remsen 1913–1917 William Henry Welch 1917–1923 Charles...
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    1907 and was named the Alexander Agassiz after the Harvard biologist who had visited in 1905. The 85-foot Alexander Agassiz, a sailing vessel with twin...
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    Sounding Machine. This was the first realistic bathymetric map of any oceanic basin. In: "Three Cruises of the BLAKE" by Alexander Agassiz, 1888. P. 102....
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    was first described by the American engineer and marine zoologist Alexander Agassiz in 1864 as Psammechinus pulcherrimus. Its range extends along the...
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  • International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium. He was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1936. He was made...
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    Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut...
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    rotating display at the public museum. In July 2021, Gonzalo Giribet, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology...
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    1918, the US National Academy of Sciences awarded Prince Albert its Alexander Agassiz Medal for his achievements. The Explorers Club elected Albert I to...
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    PMID 11617111. Dobbs, David. 2005. Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. Pantheon. ISBN 0-375-42161-0 Fairbridge...
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    Gonionemus vertens (category Taxa named by Alexander Agassiz)
    is a species complex. Schuchert P, ed. (2011). "Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862". World Hydrozoa database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved...
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    conservation efforts. C. concrescens was first discovered by Alexander Agassiz in 1869. Agassiz, a Swiss-American zoologist and marine biologist, observed...
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  • and the University of Chicago. In 1973 Lewontin was appointed as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University...
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    Amor beim Schärfen seiner Pfeile (Love sharpening its arrows) 1901 Alexander Agassiz 1901 Yvonne (formerly Musée du Luxembourg), Portrait of Lefebvre's...
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  • agassizii, or Agassiz' smooth-head, is a species of fish in the family Alepocephalidae. It is named for the scientist and engineer Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910)...
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  • Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) in 1983, and the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1989 for his isotopic...
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  • developed the Black Sea deluge theory. Among his major awards are the Alexander Agassiz Medal and the Vetlesen Prize. Pitman was born on 21 October 1931 in...
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    president and served in this role until 1939. Lillie was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal by the NAS in 1940 for his efforts. The American Society of...
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    Pycnogonidae. Reports on the Results of Dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, along the east coast of the United States during the summer of 1880...
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  • in 1901, he began working with famed ichthyologist Alexander Agassiz. Bigelow accompanied Agassiz on several major marine science expeditions including...
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