People/Characters: Louis Agassiz

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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (Three-volume edition) by Carl Sandburg	as J. L. R. Agassiz
Andres Lamas em Petrópolis- Anuário do Museu Imperial by Alcindo Sodré
Apes, angels & Victorians : the story of Darwin, Huxley, and evolution by William Irvine
Brave Companions by David McCullough
Brother Against Brother (Civil War) by Time-Life Editors
Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography by Janet Browne
The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward
Correspondence between Spencer Fullerton Baird and Louis Agassiz--Two Pioneer American naturalists by Spencer Fullerton Baird
Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) by Philip Appleman
Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller
The Ghost Lake: The True Story of Louis Agassiz (Voyager Series) by John Hudson Tiner
The Hamlet of Edwin Booth by Charles Harlen Shattuck
The Heyday of Natural History by Lynn Barber
The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund Blair Bolles
Living Biographies of Great Scientists by Henry Thomas
Louis Agassiz As a Teacher: Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction by Lane Cooper
Louis Agassiz as a teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction, with introductory note by Lane Cooper
Louis Agassiz, Adventurous Scientist by Louise Hall Tharp
Louis Agassiz, Scientist and Teacher by James David Teller
Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science by Edward Lurie
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence in Two Volumes by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
Louis Agassiz: pied piper of science by Aylesa Forsee
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
Nature and the American mind: Louis Agassiz and the culture of science by Edward Lurie
O Imperador do Brasil e os seus amigos da Nova Inglaterra - Anuário do Museu Imperial by David James
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Jonathan Wells
Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Mary P. Winsor
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution by David Quammen
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel L. Robinson
A Scientist of Two Worlds: Louis Agassiz by Catherine Owens Peare
Verdicts Out of Court by Clarence Darrow
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (28 May 1807 - 14 December 1873), a Swiss-born professor of natural history. Among the ideas for which he is known are his theories on ice ages, his resistance to Charles Robert Darwin's theories on evolution, and his racial classification scheme (hence his appearance in both books about the history of the theory of evolution and of the American Civil War).