JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1807 – 1873)

FROM SWITZERLAND TO MINNESOTA

SWISS BORN

ALPINE FLOWER

GLACIAL STRIATIONS

AGASSIZ GLACIER

THE EIGER

JUNGFRAU

MATTERHORN

HOW TO MAKE A MATTERHORN

GLACIAL TILL

RIVER WARREN

(NOW MINNESOTA)

ANCIENT SHORELINES AND RIVERS

BRAZIL EXPEDITION

ELIZABETH AGASSIZ

HER INFLUENCE

Died 27 Jun 1907 (born 5 Dec 1822) (née Cary) U.S. naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. She married the Swiss naturalist, Louis Agassiz, in 1850. They traveled together on scientific expeditions, and founded the Anderson school of Natural History, a Marine laboratory, located on Penikese Island in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. When her husband died in1873, Elizabeth became interested in the idea of college for women to be taught by the "Harvard Annex" in Cambridge. In 1894 the Annex became Radcliffe College. She served as president until 1899, then honorary president until 1903. Her books include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859), A Journey in Brazil (1867)

Stanford -1906 quake “They have been joking about poor Agassiz ever

since, calling him the head foremost scientist of

America, a man of great penetration, and one who was alright in the abstract but not very good in the

concrete.”