Carl Adolph Agardh - Scientist




Carl Adolph Agardh

Carl Adolph Agardh (23rd january, 1785 - 28th January, 1859) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad.

                Agardh was appointed professor of botany and practical economy at Lund University in 1812, was ordained a clergyman in 1816 and received two parishes as prebend.  He was a  representative in the clearical chamber of the Swedish Parliament on several occasions from 1817, and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1817 and Swedish Academy in 1831.

                He was rector magnificus of Lund University 1819 - 1820 and was appointed bishop of Karlstad in 1835, where he remained until his death.  He was the father of Jacob Georg Agardh also a botanist.    Carl Adolph Agardh was elected a member of the Swedish Academy 1831.  Carl Adolph Agardh was appointed bishop of Karlstad 1835.  Carl Adolph Agardh died on the 28th January 1859.

Scientist-James Watt



JAMES WATT (1736 - 1819)


The Scotish inventor James Watt improved the design of the early steam engine, ensuring that it could be used successfully throughout industry.  He refined the steam engine designed by the English engineer Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729) and made it more efficient.  Watt's work helped to bring about  the industrial revolution in Britian. 

The new Watt steam engines provided much of the power for Britain's industries during the 1800s.  The watt(W), the unit of power, is named for James Watt.  The power of most electrical devices, such as light bulbs and heaters is reted in watts.

Charles Darwin Scientest

CHARLES DARWIN ( 1809 - 1882)

The English Naturalist Charles Darwin is celebrated for his theory of Evolution by Natural selection.  This theory was published in Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and argues that the individual members of a Species very naturally in their characteristics.  Those members that are best adjusted to their environment will survie in the greatest numbers to reproduce and pass on their characteristics to the next generation.  Over many generations, therefore, the species as a whole will evolve, becoming better adapted to its environment.  Darwin's theory, often simplified as "the survival of the fittests", was held to apply equally to the evolution of human beings.

Famous Scientist

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (17th December, 1835 - 27th March, 1910) Son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.  Agassiz was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland and emigrated to the United States with his father in 1849.  He graduated from Harvard University in 1855.  subsequently studying engineering and chemistry and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857 and 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey.  Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines.   E. J. Hulber, a friend of Agassiz brother-in-law, Quincy adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.  He persuaded them to purchase a controlling interest in the mines,  which later become known as the calumet and Heda Mining company based in Calumet, Michigan.

He was elected aFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862.  In 1877 and 1880 he took part in the three dredging expenditions of the steamer blake of the Coast Survey, and presented a full account of them in two volumes (1888).  In 1896 Agassiz visited Fiji and Queensland and inspected the Great Barrier Reef, publishing a paper on the subject in 1898.  Of Agassiz's other writings on marine zoology, most are contained in the bulletins and memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology; but he published in 1865, with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his stepmother, Seaside Studies in Natural History, a work at once exact and stimulating and in 1871 Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay.

Agassiz served as a president of the National Academy of Sciences, which since 1913 has awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal in his memory.  He died in 1910 on board the RMS Adriatic en route to New York from Southampton.