Louis Agassiz


Region Occupation Born Died
North America, New England Scientist 1807 1873

Swiss-born geologist who came to the United States and Harvard in the 1840s; engaged in studies that involved some deep-sea investigations and fossil fish with his younger associate Louis F. de Pourtales.

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Robert A. McCaughey

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