黑料吃瓜资源鈥檚 (CSHL鈥檚) Library & Archives offer a wealth of invaluable resources documenting the history of biology and medical research. For international Love Data Week, which ran from February 9-13, the CSHL Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology invited members of the public and the Lab community to view artifacts, books, and other ephemera from its extensive collections spanning more than 200 years of data-driven scientific discovery.
鈥淲e included rare books, Nobel Prize-winning research, key materials from our personal and institutional collections, and more that together chronicle the development of molecular biology,鈥� says Ludmila Pollock, the Center for Humanities鈥� Robert D.L. Gardiner Chair. 鈥淚t鈥檚 an absolutely unique catalog of key discoveries and personal contributions to the development of molecular biology.鈥�
The CSHL Archives house over 5,000 linear feet of written materials open to scientists, historians, and the public. Contained within are the personal collections of nearly three dozen notable scientists, a large repository of , and records of nearly 100 international . These records offer an important glimpse into the foundations of modern biology and medicine.
鈥淵ou cannot live without the memory of the past,鈥� Pollock explains. 鈥淲e preserve not only experiments and developments in science. We preserve the interactions between people, the different approaches to science, the collaborations, the correspondence. It鈥檚 all here at CSHL, it鈥檚 original, and it鈥檚 an absolutely invaluable resource.鈥�
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