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2 unusual facts about Station biologique de Roscoff


Ernest Everett Just

At the outbreak of World War II, Ernest Just was working at the Station Biologique in Roscoff, France, researching the paper that would become Unsolved Problems of General Biology.

Louis Rapkine

He worked with Charles Pérez and Maurice Caullery (1925) at Station biologique de Roscoff, at Collège de France under Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet (1926), at the "Service de biophysique" of the Institut de biologie physico-chimique of Paris under René Wurmser (1927) and became famous for his joint research with P. Trpinac (1938).


Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer

After founding the Roscoff Marine Station on the English Channel in 1872, the Sorbonne zoologist, Prof. Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, wished to establish a second marine station on the Mediterranean.


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