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Adam Sedgwick

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Sedgwick, Adam 

Born Mar. 22, 1785, in Dent, Yorkshire; died Jan. 27, 1873, in Cambridge. British geologist. Professor at Cambridge University (1818–72).

Sedgwick’s principal works dealt with the Paleozoic deposits of Great Britain, Belgium, and Germany. In 1835 Sedgwick identified the Cambrian system. In 1839, together with R. Murchison, he identified the Devonian system. In 1903 a museum in memory of Sedgwick was opened at Cambridge.

REFERENCE

Clark, J. W., and T. M. Hughes. The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, vols. 1–2. London, 1890.
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