“I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their embryonic development.”

About Louis Agassiz

Scientist • Swiss-American

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist recognized as a leading scholar of Earth's natural history. He is renowned for his extensive work on ichthyology, classifying thousands of...