Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz
Lahir	(1807-05-28)28 Mei 1807 Haut-Vully, Switzerland
Meninggal	14 Desember 1873(1873-12-14) (umur 66) Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.S.
Almamater	Universitas Erlangen-Nuremberg
Suami/istri	Cecilie Braun Elizabeth Cabot Cary
Anak	Alexander Emanuel Agassiz Ida Agassiz Pauline Agassiz
Penghargaan	Wollaston Medal (1836)
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Paleontology Glaciology Geology Natural History
Pembimbing doktoral	Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Pembimbing akademik lain	Ignaz Döllinger
Mahasiswa ternama	William Stimpson
Tanda tangan

Louis Agassiz (28 Mei 1807 – 14 Desember 1873) adalah seorang biologiwan dan geolog kelahiran Swiss dan berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Setelah mengunjungi Universitas Harvard pada pertengahan masa kariernya, ia berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1847 dan menjadi seorang profesor zoologi dan geologi di Universitas Harvard dan menjadi kepala Sekolah Saintifik Lawrence serta mendirikan Museum Zoologi Komperatif.

Kehidupan awal

Louis Agassiz lahir di Môtier (sekarang bagian dari Haut-Vully) di kanton Fribourg, Switzerland. Pertama kali dididik di rumah, kemudian menjalani empat tahun di sekolah menengah di Bienne, ia menyelesaikan pembelajaran dasarnya di Lausanne. Dengan mengadopsi pengobatan sebagai profesinya, ia sukses menempuh pendidikan di universitas Zürich, Heidelberg dan Munich; sementara ia mempelajari sejarah alam, khususnya botani. Pada 1829 ia meraih gelar Doktor Filsafat di Erlangen, dan pada 1830, ia meraih gelar doktor pengobatan di Munich.

Karya-karya

• "'Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833–1843)
• History of the Freshwater Fishes of Central Europe (1839–1842)
• Etudes sur les glaciers (1840)
• Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (1840–1845)
• Nomenclator Zoologicus (1842–1846)
• Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie (1844–1845)
• Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848)
• (bersama dengan AA Gould) Principles of Zoology for the use of Schools and Colleges (Boston, 1848)
• Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions (Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850)
• Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1857–1862)
• Geological Sketches (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866)
• A Journey in Brazil (1868)
• De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie [Essay on classification] (Trans. Felix Vogeli. Paris: Bailière, 1869)
• Geological Sketches (Second Series) (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1876)
• Essay on Classification, oleh Louis Agassiz (1962, Cambridge)

Lihat pula

• Agassiz Rock, Edinburgh Diarsipkan 2021-01-21 di Wayback Machine.: during a visit to Edinburgh in 1840, Aggassiz explained the striations on this rock's surface as due to glaciation.
• Daftar geolog

Referensi

Sastra

• Dexter, R W (1979). "The impact of evolutionary theories on the Salem group of Agassiz zoologists (Morse, Hyatt, Packard, Putnam)". Essex Institute historical collections. Vol. 115, no. 3. hlm. 144–71. PMID 11616944. Pemeliharaan CS1: Postscript (link)
• Irmscher, Christoph (2013). Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780547577678.
• Lurie, E (1954). "Louis Agassiz and the races of Man". Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences. Vol. 45, no. 141 (dipublikasikan Sep 1954). hlm. 227–42. PMID 13232804. Pemeliharaan CS1: Postscript (link)
• Lurie, Edward (1988). Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801837432.
• Lurie, Edward (2008). "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. hlm. 72–74.
• Mackie, G O (1989). "Louis Agassiz and the discovery of the coelenterate nervous system". History and philosophy of the life sciences. Vol. 11, no. 1. hlm. 71–81. PMID 2573108. Pemeliharaan CS1: Postscript (link)
• Menand, Louis (2002). "Agassiz". The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. Macmillan. hlm. 97–116. ISBN 9780374528492.
• Numbers, Ronald L., The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, 2nd ed., 2006.
• Rogers, Molly (2010). Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300115482.
• Smith, Harriet Knight, The history of the Lowell Institute, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898.
• Winsor, M P (1979). "Louis Agassiz and the species question". Studies in history of biology. Vol. 3. hlm. 89–138. PMID 11610990. Pemeliharaan CS1: Postscript (link)

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• Publikasi oleh dan mengenai Louis Agassiz dalam katalog Helveticat di Perpustakaan Nasional Swiss
• Karya Louis Agassiz di Project Gutenberg
• Karya Louis Agassiz di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Weisstein, Eric Wolfgang (ed.). "Agassiz, Jean (1807–1873)". ScienceWorld.
• Pictures and texts of Excursions et séjours dans les glaciers et les hautes régions des Alpes Diarsipkan 2010-08-11 di Wayback Machine. and of Nouvelles études et expériences sur les glaciers actuels Diarsipkan 2010-08-11 di Wayback Machine. by Louis Agassiz can be found in the database VIATIMAGES.
• "Geographical Distribution of Animals", by Louis Agassiz (1850)
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz, by Mabel Louise Robinson (1939) – free download at manybooks.net
• Thayer Expedition to Brazil, 1865–1866 Diarsipkan 2009-09-25 di Wayback Machine. (Agassiz went to Brazil to find glacial boulders and to refute Darwin. Dom Pedro II gave his support for Agassiz's expedition on the Amazon River.)
• (Inggris) Louis Agassiz di Find a Grave
• Louis Agassiz Correspondence Diarsipkan 2012-01-12 di Wayback Machine., Houghton Library, Harvard University
•  Marcus Benjamin (1900). "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
• digital version of Volume 3 "RECHERCHES SUR LES POISSONS FOSSILES"
• Illustrations from 'Monographies d'échinodermes vivans et fossiles'
• View works by Louis Agassiz online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir