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Agassiz, Alexander

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Agassiz, Alexander (Emmanuel Rodolphe) (1835–1910)

Swiss-born oceanographer. From 1873 to 1885 he was curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, founded by his father, Jean Louis Agassiz. He made numerous oceanographic zoological expeditions, wrote many books, and examined thousands of coral reefs to refute Darwin's ideas on atoll formation.

Agassiz travelled to the USA to join his naturalist father in 1848. He graduated from Harvard with degrees in engineering (1857) and zoology (1862).



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