Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Lahir	28 Mei 1807; Haut-Vully, Switzerland
Meninggal	14 Desember 1873 (umur 66); Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.S.
Almamater	Universitas Erlangen-Nuremberg
Suami/istri	Cecilie Braun; Elizabeth Cabot Cary
Anak	Alexander Emanuel Agassiz; Ida Agassiz; Pauline Agassiz
Penghargaan	Wollaston Medal (1836)
	Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Paleontology; Glaciology; Geology; Natural History;
Pembimbing doktoral	Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Pembimbing akademik lain	Ignaz Döllinger
Mahasiswa ternama	William Stimpson
Tanda tangan

Louis Agassiz (/ˈæɡəsi/, dalam pengucapan Inggris), 28 Mei 1807 – 14 Desember 1873, adalah seorang biolog dan geolog kelahiran Swiss

Setelah mengunjungi Universitas Harvard pada pertengahan masa kariernya, ia berimigrasi ke A.S. pada 1847 dan menjadi seorang profesor zoologi dan geologi di Harvard, dan menjadi kepala Sekolah Saintifik Lawrence dan mendirikan Museum Zoologi Komperatif.

Kehidupan awal

Louis Agassiz lahir di Môtier (sekarang bagian dari Haut-Vully) di kanton Fribourg, Switzerland. Pertama kali dididik di rumah, kemudian menjalani empat tahun di sekolah menengah di Bienne, ia menyelesaikan pembelajaran dasarnya di Lausanne. Dengan mengadopsi pengobatan sebagai profesinya, ia sukses menempuh pendidikan di universitas Zürich, Heidelberg dan Munich; sementara ia mempelajari sejarah alam, khususnya botani. Pada 1829 ia meraih gelar Doktor Filsafat di Erlangen, dan pada 1830, ia meraih gelar doktor pengobatan di Munich.

Karya-karya

"'Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833–1843)
History of the Freshwater Fishes of Central Europe (1839–1842)
Etudes sur les glaciers (1840)
Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (1840–1845)
Nomenclator Zoologicus (1842–1846)
Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie (1844–1845)
Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848)
(bersama dengan AA Gould) Principles of Zoology for the use of Schools and Colleges (Boston, 1848)
Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions (Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850)
Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1857–1862)
Geological Sketches (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866)
A Journey in Brazil (1868)
De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie [Essay on classification] (Trans. Felix Vogeli. Paris: Bailière, 1869)
Geological Sketches (Second Series) (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1876)
Essay on Classification, oleh Louis Agassiz (1962, Cambridge)

Lihat pula

Agassiz Rock, Edinburgh [1] Diarsipkan 2021-01-21 di Wayback Machine.: during a visit to Edinburgh in 1840, Aggassiz explained the striations on this rock's surface as due to glaciation.
Daftar geolog

Referensi

Sastra

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Irmscher, Christoph (2013). Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780547577678.
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Lurie, Edward (1988). Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801837432.
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