Person Agassiz; Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe (1835 - 1910) Agassiz Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Alexander Rodolphe Albert 1835 - 1910 Male Neuchatel, Switzerland 17 December 1835 1835 27/03/1910 19100327

Zoology Oceanography Engineering Education: Harvard (graduated 1855) Career: Went to the United States with his father (1846); Assistant, US coast survey (1859); Superintendent, Calumnet and Hecla copper mines, Lake Superior; surveyed Lake Titicaca, Peru, and studied copper mines in Peru and Chile (1875); made dredging expeditions; studied coral islands; died at sea on board the Adriatic, returning to the United States Son of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (For Mem RS 1838) Foreign Member 26/11/1891 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DAB; DSB; non preferred term from David Dobbs, 'Reff madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz and the meaning of coral' (New York, 2005) - he went by the name of Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz all his life and when he emigrated to America and tool citizenship, late in life he found among old family papers a birth certificate, apparently valid, baming him Alexander Rodolphe Albert Agassiz. References: J Corden, 'Web of Science History' project in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 383-388 ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 17 Dec 1835 - 27 Mar 1910 NA3653 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/5016739 094b28d7-123d-41ec-bf05-f538a0d4083a