Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873), full name Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth’s natural history. Agassiz grew up in Switzerland, and received doctor of philosophy and medical degrees at Erlangen and Munich, respectively. Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchatel. He emigrated to the United States in 1847 after visiting Harvard University, where he went on to become professor of zoology and geology. Agassiz was one of the brave few who resisted Darwinian evolution.

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