Meetings in Honor of Louis Agassiz

Authors

Lukas F. Burckhardt

Keywords

Louis Agassiz, SAHS meetings, Swiss Society for Scientific Research

Abstract

It is fitting that Lousi Agassiz (1807-1873) be honored this year which marks the centennial of his death. The great pioneering scientist is renowned in Switzerland for his research on glaciers and the glacial ages, as well as in the U.S.A. As founder of the first comprehensive museum of the nautral sciences and as an outstanding teacher at Harvard University.

Recommended Citation

Burckhardt, Lukas F. (1973) "Meetings in Honor of Louis Agassiz," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 9: Iss. 3, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol9/iss3/5