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Sedgwick, Adam (31)

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Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was born in Dent, Yorkshire, on 22 March 1785, and educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1808. He gained a Fellowship in 1810, was ordained in 1816, and was elected to the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge in 1818. Over the next fifty years he lectured regularly and did much to promote the study of natural science in the university, and was a founder of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He often spent his vacatio...

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (47)

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Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Though he had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. English geologist. Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and was electe...

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1854-1913 (3)

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Sedgwick, Adam, active 1887-1909, zoologist (2)

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Epithet: zoologist

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1872 (1)

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Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1785-1873 (1)

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The geologist Adam Sedgwick was born on 22 March 1785 in Dent, Yorkshire. He was educated locally in Dent then at Sedburgh, before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1808 he was awarded a degree in Mathematics with distinction, and in 1810 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1817, Sedgwick was ordained, and in 1818 he was elected as the Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge. The same year he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Sedgwick's...

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