Adam Sedgwick

Born in 1854, he was an English zoologist and embryologist who became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Zoology at Cambridge. His work focused on comparative anatomy and embryology, and he was known as an influential teacher as well as a researcher.

He wrote and edited scientific books that helped explain biology to a wider audience, including studies of animal morphology and evolution. His career also included work at what is now Imperial College London, and he remained an important figure in British science until his death in 1913.

He was the nephew of the better-known geologist Adam Sedgwick, which can sometimes cause confusion between the two. This Adam Sedgwick is the zoologist born in 1854 and died in 1913.