Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz (, dalam pengucapan Inggris), 28 Mei 1807 – 14 Desember 1873, adalah seorang biolog dan geolog kelahiran Swiss

Setelah mengunjungi Universitas Harvard pada pertengahan masa kariernya, ia berimigrasi ke A.S. pada 1847 dan menjadi seorang profesor zoologi dan geologi di Harvard, dan menjadi kepala Sekolah Saintifik Lawrence dan 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  : during a visit to Edinburgh in 1840, Aggassiz explained the striations on this rock's surface as due to glaciation.
 Daftar geolog

 Referensi 

 Sastra 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Numbers, Ronald L., The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, 2nd ed., 2006.
 
 Smith, Harriet Knight, The history of the Lowell Institute'', Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898.

Pranala luar 

 
 
 
 
 Pictures and texts of Excursions et séjours dans les glaciers et les hautes régions des Alpes  and of Nouvelles études et expériences sur les glaciers actuels  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  (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.)
 
 Louis Agassiz Correspondence , Houghton Library, Harvard University
 
 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

Kelahiran 1807
Kematian 1873