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Adam Sedgwick (1854-1913) was brought up in Dent, Yorkshire, where his father was vicar. Both his father and his mother belonged to local landowning families. Adam Sedgwick, zoologist, shares his name with the much better known Adam Sedgwick, clergyman, geologist and mentor of Charles Darwin, and after whom Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum is named.
Adam Sedgwick, a pioneer of geology and one of Britain s most distinguished geologists, was born in March 1785 in Dent which in 1974 was incorporated in the newly formed administrative county of Cumbria. It is, however, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and was traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
6 giu 2018 · Sedgwick’s specimen ‘catalogue’ – a collection of 1200 specimens, 1819-1820. Cambridge University Library is the repository for the correspondence of Adam Sedgwick. The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick by John Willis Clark (1833-1910) and Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832-1917) was published in 1890.
1 gen 2009 · Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) was one of the leading British geologists, who did much work on the Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy. He was professor of geology at Cambridge and was an Anglican clergyman, later becoming Prebendary (Canon) of Peterborough.
Adam Sedgwick ( Dent, 22 marzo 1785 – Cambridge, 27 gennaio 1873) è stato un geologo inglese . Dopo gli studi effettuati al Trinity College si laureò in matematica a Cambridge nel 1808. Successivamente, nel 1817, venne consacrato pastore e divenne canonico della cattedrale di Norwich . Fu professore di geologia a Cambridge a partire dal ...
8 apr 2024 · Adam Sedgwick (born Sept. 28, 1854, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.—died Feb. 27, 1913, London) was an English zoologist who is best known for his researches on the wormlike organism Peripatus, which he recognized as the zoologically important connecting link between the Annelida, or segmented worms, and the Arthropoda, such as crabs, spiders, and insects.
Adam Sedgwick war einer der Begründer der modernen Geologie. Er schlug sowohl die Devon- als auch die Kambrium-Periode als Bestandteile für die geologische Zeitskala vor. Der letztere Vorschlag basierte auf den stratigraphischen Forschungen, die er in Wales vorgenommen hatte.
