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Agassiz, Alexander (Emmanuel Rodolphe)
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pronunciation:
[agasee]
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| Oceanographer, born in Neuchâtel, W Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. He moved to the USA in 1849 to join his father, studied engineering and zoology at Harvard, then amassed a fortune in the copper mines of L Superior (1866–9). He became curator (1873–85) of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, founded by his father, made numerous oceanographic zoological expeditions, and examined thousands of coral reefs to refute Darwin's ideas on atoll formation. |
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