About
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.
Before Fame
He attended the University of Cambridge.
Trivia
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.
Family Life
He is from Cambridge, England. He had two siblings.
Associated With
He was a teacher to Charles Darwin.
