Adam Sedgwick (/ˈsɛdʒwɪk/; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed...

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...

Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in North...

Robert Sedgwick is an American actor. He is the brother of actress Kyra Sedgwick. Sedgwick graduated from Bennington College in 1984. That year, he made...

series" by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for 'Cymru' (Wales), where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed. Sedgwick identified...

paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1835. In 1835, Adam Sedgwick began naming the Cambrian System, "recognizing the first rich assemblage...

Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian. The name Paleozoic was first used by Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) in 1838 to describe the Cambrian and Ordovician periods...

discontinued. The society was founded in 1819 by John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick and Edward Clarke, is Cambridge's oldest scientific society. Its prime...

Sedgwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), British geologist Adam Sedgwick (1854–1913), British zoologist...

men, including the future physician John Haygarth, and Adam Sedgwick's father, Richard Sedgwick, read with him before going up to Cambridge. But the profession...