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The name Adam means "Red earth" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick ( 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican 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.
Though he had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology and continued to be on friendly terms, Sedgwick was an opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
He strongly opposed the admission of women to the University of Cambridge, in one conversation describing aspiring female students as "nasty forward minxes."
Source: Adam Sedgwick, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAdam Sedgwick (zoologist)
Adam Sedgwick FRS (28 September 1854 – 27 February 1913) was a British zoologist and Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Imperial College, London, and a great nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick.
Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. He was the great-nephew of Rev. Adam Sedgwick (FRS 1821). He married Laura, daughter of Captain Robinson of Armagh.
He was educated at Giggleswick School; Marlborough College; King's College London; and later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded his BA in 1878, and awarded MA in 1881. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1880); Tutor, Trinity College (1897–1907); Lecturer in Animal Morphology, Cambridge University (1883–1890); Reader in Animal Morphology (1890–1907); Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1907–1909); Professor of Zoology, Imperial College, London (1909–1913); Chairman, Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1886.
Sedgwick contributed articles to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He also wrote “A Student's Textbook of Zoology” in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905 and 1909. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.
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