Ag·as·siz ( g  -s ), Elizabeth Cabot Cary 1822-1907. American educator who helped organize the predecessor of Radcliffe College (1879) and served as Radcliffe's first president (1894-1899). |
| Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) 1807-1873. Swiss-born American naturalist noted for his study of fossil fish and for recognizing from geologic evidence that ice ages had occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| Agassiz, Lake A glacial lake of the Pleistocene Epoch extending over present-day northwest Minnesota, northeast North Dakota, southern Manitoba, and southwest Ontario. |
Agassiz (French) [agasi]
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(Biographies / Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873) M, USnational of birth: Swiss, HISTORY: historian, SCIENCE: geologist) Jean Louis Rodolphe (ʒɑ̃ lwi rɔdɔlf). 1807-73, Swiss natural historian and geologist, settled in the US after 1846
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| Noun | 1. |  Agassiz - United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) |
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