adam sedgwick

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Definition von adam sedgwick im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

born March 22, 1785, Dent, Yorkshire, Eng. died Jan. 27, 1873, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire English geologist. A pioneer in the establishment of geology as a university discipline (Trinity College, Oxford), he named the Cambrian Period and (with Roderick Murchison) the Devonian Period. His grandnephew, the zoologist Adam Sedgwick (1854-1913), first established the evolutionary link between the annelids and the arthropods

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Ad·am Sedg·wick

Türkische aussprache

ädım secwîk

Aussprache

/ˈadəm ˈseʤwək/ /ˈædəm ˈsɛʤwɪk/