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Louis Agassiz:
(1807-1873), Swiss-born U.S. naturalist and glaciologist who became Professor of Natural History at Harvard (1848) and developed theories on the occurrence of Ice Ages.
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    Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 — December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz ...

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    Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), who during the third quarter of the 19th century became something of the prototypical American naturalist, was in fact born in Switzerland.

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