1785 - 1873
Adam Sedgwick British Scientist
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Adam Sedgwick is a member of the following lists: Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellows of the Royal Society and Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Details
| First Name |
Adam
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| Last Name |
Sedgwick
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| Birthday |
22nd March, 1785
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| Birthplace |
Dent, Yorkshire
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| Died |
27th January, 1873
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| Place of Death |
Cambridge, England
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Adam Sedgwick (; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what later became known as the Great Devonian Controversy about rocks near the boundary between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, he and Murchison proposed the Devonian period.
