1807–1873 Swiss -born American zoologist, palaeontologist and geologist who introduced scientific zoology to the United States.
Keywords: fossils; cuvier; zoology; harvard
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
Olivier Lagueux, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002346
| Further Reading | |
| book Agassiz L (1833–1845) Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Neuchâtel, France: H Nicolet. | |
| book Agassiz L (1840) Études sur les Glaciers. Neuchâtel, France: Jent & Gassmann. | |
| book Agassiz L (1857–1862) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. | |
| book Agassiz EC (ed.) (1885) Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. | |
| book Bolles EB (1999) The Ice Finder: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age. Washington DC: Counterpoint. | |
| book Cooper LA (1945) Louis Agassiz as a Teacher. London: Constable. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Lurie E (1960) Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Teller JD (1947) Louis Agassiz, Scientist and Teacher. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. | |
| book Winsor MP (1991) Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
