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BIOLOGIST

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 813,513 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Louis Agassiz is the 168th most popular biologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 7th 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 168 out of 841Before him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Peter Medawar, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, César Milstein, and Renato Dulbecco. After him are Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Louis Agassiz ranks 9Before him are Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Jules Grévy, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Lajos Batthyány, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Bezmiâlem Sultan. After him are Harriet Taylor Mill, Anthony Mary Claret, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Joseph Petzval, Alfred Vail, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Agassiz ranks 16Before him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Fyodor Tyutchev, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Johns Hopkins, and Émile Gaboriau. After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Viktor Hartmann, and Jean Chacornac.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 133 out of 876Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Ernest Bloch (1880), Frank Martin (1890), Guy Parmelin (1959), and Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779). After him are Margareta of Romania (1949), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Max Bill (1908), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Emil Abderhalden (1877).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz ranks 7Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Werner Arber (1929), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), and Charles Bonnet (1720). After him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Johann Bauhin (1541), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), and Carl Nägeli (1817).