ABOUT ADAM SEDGWICK
Founder of modern geology best known for his proposition of the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1833 and the Copley Medal in 1863.
He attended the University of Cambridge .
In 1951, Mount Sedgwick in Canada was officially named after him. In 1880, the oldest geological society in the world, The Sedgwick Club, was named after him.
He is from Cambridge, England. He had two siblings.
He was a teacher to Charles Darwin .
