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 "Seventeen biologists and a rowboat" launch the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole - following the dictum of Louis Agassiz to "study nature, not books." |
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 Biology's Best Minds
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was established in 1888 as a non-profit institution devoted to research and education in basic biology.
51 Nobel laureates have spent a season or more at the MBL as students, faculty, investigators, or library readers. Lewis Thomas, author of The Lives of a Cell, called the MBL “the uniquely national center for biology in this country.”
Today, scientists and students throughout the world come to the MBL to conduct basic biological, biomedical, and environmental research. Here they teach, study, and collaborate with other scientists. They often use the diverse and abundant organisms found in surrounding waters as model systems in their research.
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