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Agassiz

Agassiz is a surname of Swiss origin and a placename used in several contexts. The most prominent bearer is Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), a Swiss-born naturalist who became a leading figure in 19th‑century science in the United States. He contributed to ichthyology, paleontology, and glaciology, played a key role in developing field-based natural history, and founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His work helped establish the reality of past Ice Ages, though his later racial theories are discredited.

Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910), the son of Louis Agassiz, was a marine scientist and engineer who conducted extensive

Geographically, Agassiz is used for places named in honor of Louis Agassiz. The most notable is the

In geology and paleogeography, Lake Agassiz was a vast prehistoric glacial lake that existed during the last

dredging
and
exploration
and
published
influential
works
in
zoology
and
oceanography.
town
of
Agassiz
in
the
Fraser
Valley
region
of
British
Columbia,
Canada.
It
serves
as
a
regional
service
center
with
agricultural
activity
and
is
connected
by
road
and
rail.
Ice
Age
in
central
North
America.
It
occupied
parts
of
present-day
Manitoba,
Saskatchewan,
Ontario,
Minnesota,
and
North
Dakota,
and
its
eventual
drainage
reshaped
continental
hydrology
and
sediment
deposition,
influencing
the
historical
landscape
of
the
region.