Louis Agassiz

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Website:
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/agassiz-louis.pdf
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1807-1873
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001283.html
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Portraits/Agassiz,%20Louis,%201807-1873/
"Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence", edited and published in 1890 after Louis's death by his wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, contains a detailed account of his life. It consists of a collection of letters, and on page 144 is an autobiographical account of his studies in Zurich, Heidelberg, and Munich. The book is available in full online, see http://books.google.com/books?id=ifwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Mean distance: 16.1 (cluster 2)
 
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Parents

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Lorenz Oken research assistant 1829 Universität München (Physiology Academic Tree)
Carl F. P. von Martius research assistant 1829 Universität München
Ignaz Döllinger research assistant 1830 University of Munich
Andreas Röschlaub grad student 1830 University of Munich
 (De taxi et syntaxi morphomatum telae corneae dictae)
Georges (Jean) Léopold Nicolas Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier post-doc 1830-1833 College de France (Anatomy Tree)
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Alexander (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr) von Humboldt research scientist 1830-1833 Paris (Meteorology Tree)
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Children

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Henry Augustus Ward research assistant Rochester
Joseph Le Conte (LeConte) research assistant 1848- Harvard (Geotree)
Johann Jakob von Tschudi research assistant 1838 (Evolution Tree)
Spencer Fullerton Baird research assistant 1847 (Evolution Tree)
John McCrady research assistant 1852-1855 Harvard (Systematics Tree)
Joel Asaph Allen research assistant 1862-1865 Harvard
Edward A. Birge research assistant 1873 Harvard
Charles Sedgwick Minot research assistant 1873 Harvard (Anatomy Tree)
David Starr Jordan research assistant 1873-1873 Harvard
Charles Otis Whitman research assistant 1873-1873 Harvard (Evolution Tree)
Albert John Cook grad student Harvard (Terrestrial Ecology Tree)
Frederick W. Putnam grad student (Anthropology Tree)
Alexander Agassiz grad student 1855 Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler grad student 1862 Harvard (Physics Tree)
Alpheus Hyatt grad student 1858-1862 Harvard (Systematics Tree)
Burt Green Wilder grad student 1866 Harvard (DevTree)
William James post-doc Harvard

Collaborators

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William Buckland collaborator (Theology Tree)
Karl Friedrich Schimper collaborator University of Munich (Mycotree)
Alexander Heinrich Braun collaborator 1829 Universität München (Physiology Academic Tree)
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