adam sedgwick

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Definition of adam sedgwick in English English dictionary

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

Hyphenation

Ad·am Sedg·wick

Turkish pronunciation

ädım secwîk

Pronunciation

/ˈadəm ˈseʤwək/ /ˈædəm ˈsɛʤwɪk/