FTP, identify this Swiss-born naturalist whose 1840 Studies on Glaciers developed the original concept of the ice age.
His later works include Lake Superior, A Journey in Brazil, and the 1859 Essay on Classification, written in the same year that he founded the Museum for Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Much of his early work centered on fossil fishes, culminating in a work classifying over 1700 species. After traveling in the Alps in 1836, however, he developed the idea that glaciers were in a constant state of motion. FTP, identify this Swiss-born naturalist whose 1840 Studies on Glaciers developed the original concept of the ice age.
His later works include Lake Superior, A Journey in Brazil, and the 1859 Essay on Classification, written in the same year that he founded the Museum for Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz