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Sedgwick, Adam

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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▪ British geologist
born March 22, 1785, Dent, Yorkshire, Eng.
died Jan. 27, 1873, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

      English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian (Cambrian Period) to the geologic period of time, now dated at 570 to 505 million years ago.

      Sedgwick was educated at the grammar schools of Dent and Sedbergh and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1810 he was elected a fellow. Although he was a mathematician and knew little about geology, he was appointed Woodwardian professor of geology at Trinity College in 1818. (At that time, university appointments were often based upon a man's general merits rather than his special training.) Sedgwick immediately set about establishing the importance of geology in university studies. He also began the numerous geologic expeditions characteristic of his career. In 1827 he joined Roderick I. Murchison in cooperative investigations in western and northern Scotland, the first of many joint efforts throughout Britain and the European continent.

      Sedgwick was made president of the Geological Society of London in 1829, and two years later he began fieldwork in northern Wales. There he established the order of local rocks and gave the name Cambrian (after Cambria, the ancient name for Wales) to the oldest fossiliferous strata. Murchison and Sedgwick made a joint study of the shales and sandstones of Devonshire and named the Devonian Period (now dated at 408 to 360 million years ago). Their findings were presented to the Geological Society in the paper “On the Physical Structure of Devonshire” (1839).

      An unfortunate disagreement over priorities of discovery and naming of certain Early Paleozoic rocks, later to be named Ordovician, broke up the partnership of Murchison and Sedgwick. Sedgwick's works include A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Paleozoic Rocks (1855). The Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge, opened in 1903, was built as a memorial to him.

▪ British zoologist
born Sept. 28, 1854, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.
died Feb. 27, 1913, London
 English zoologist who is best known for his researches on the wormlike organism Peripatus, which he recognized as the zoologically important connecting link between the Annelida, or segmented worms, and the Arthropoda, such as crabs, spiders, and insects.

      A grandnephew of the geologist Adam Sedgwick, he was educated at King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1878 he became a lecturer in the school for zoological research directed by Francis Maitland Balfour (Balfour, Francis Maitland), who was a leader of research in comparative anatomy and embryology. After Balfour's death in 1882 Sedgwick took charge of the school. In 1897 Sedgwick received a fellowship and tutorship at Trinity College, and two years later succeeded Alfred Newton as professor of zoology at Cambridge. He became professor of zoology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, in 1909. He was the author, and subsequently the editor, of A Student's Text-Book of Zoology, 3 vol. (1898, 1905, 1909).

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Источник: Sedgwick, Adam

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