American-born Swiss zoologist, oceanographer and engineer born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, authority on jellyfish and corals. Son of the renowned Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz, he arrived in the United States (1849) and graduated in engineering and zoology from Harvard University.
He went to the northern frontier to work as an engineer and became manager of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines in Lake Superior (1865-1869) and its shareholder and made a great fortune. As a philanthropist he made offers to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and other biological research institutions totaling over a million dollars. He was curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard (1873-1885) when he left because of health problems.
During this period he explored Lake Titicaca, between Bolivia and Peru (1874-1875), and built an aquarium in Newport (1875), Rhode Island and began (1877) a sequence of annual expeditions to study marine life in the Western-Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (1877). He continued his annual expeditions to study marine life until after the turn of the century (1904), but he did not stop with his occasional expeditions and died at sea while traveling across the Atlantic Ocean.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order A - Biography - Brazil School
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