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Louis Agassiz

1807 - 1873

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( AG-ə-see; French: [aɡasi]) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a PhD at Erlangen and a medical degree in Munich. After studying with Georges Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Agassiz has received more than 881,248 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Louis Agassiz is the 105th most popular biologist (up from 167th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Biologist.

Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-born American naturalist and geologist. He is most famous for his work on glaciers and for his theory of the Ice Age.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louis Agassiz ranks 105 out of 1,097. Before him are Lynn Margulis, Oliver Smithies, John Franklin Enders, Jean Dausset, Nettie Stevens, and Thomas Huckle Weller. After him are Edward Tatum, Jan Swammerdam, Julian Huxley, Nikolay Pirogov, Georg Forster, and Alfred Hershey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Louis Agassiz ranks 5. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Robert E. Lee, and Jules Grévy. After him are Anthony Mary Claret, Lajos Batthyány, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Joseph Petzval, and Harriet Taylor Mill. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Agassiz ranks 13. Before him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Vasil Levski, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. After him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Émile Gaboriau, Johns Hopkins, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, and Pauline Therese of Württemberg.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 94 out of 1,015. Before him are Roger Federer (1981), Mario Botta (1943), Jean Tinguely (1925), Gianni Infantino (1970), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), and François Vatel (1631). After him are Brother Roger (1915), Anna Göldi (1734), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), and Nicholas of Flüe (1417).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 5. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), and Werner Arber (1929). After him are Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Charles Bonnet (1720), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884).

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