Person PX22 Agassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873); Palaeontologist and biologist Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe 1807-1873 Palaeontologist and biologist Male PX7090 Born 28 May 1807 Montier, Switzerland. Died 14 December 1873 Cambridge, UK

Neuchatel, Switzerland and Harvard, USA

Swiss Professor at the Lyceum Neuchatel, Switzerland 1932 working on palaeontology, systematics and glaciology. Accepted a professorship at Harvard 1848 and founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1859 which opened in 1860. He helped with the creation of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC and was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1863. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Yes Idealist Import 4namepers.txt 28/02/2004 NHM\laurb5 17/12/2018 2ac87eea-d1da-4d1d-84c3-60440fac373e