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Noun: Agassiz  a-gu-see
  1. United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
    - Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Type of: natural scientist, naturalist

Encyclopedia: Agassiz, Cambridge, Massachusetts