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Also Known As Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz
Born December 17, 1835 • Neuchâtel • Switzerland
Died March 27, 1910 (aged 74)
Notable Works “Revision of the Echini”
Subjects Of Study echinoderm • coral reef • ocean floor • taxonomy

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Daniel Cowan Jackling.
Daniel Cowan Jackling
American engineer
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Guggenheim, Meyer
Meyer Guggenheim
American industrialist and philanthropist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
James Douglas, oil painting by E.W. Grier, 19th century; in a private collection
James Douglas
American engineer
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
Hammond, John Hays
John Hays Hammond
American engineer
Sir Chester Beatty
British engineer
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Edmund Newton Harvey
American zoologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Willi Hennig
German zoologist
Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist

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