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Roy’s observation (1979) that “historians of science record that great science is built around key individuals, small groups, or a special ‘bunch of people,’ in Lewis Thomas’ felicitous phrase, not around elaborate proposals,” applies in great sense to the contributions of Alexander Agassiz and his academic progeny to the oceanography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Zinn, D.J. (1980). Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910) and the Financial Support of Oceanography in the United States. In: Sears, M., Merriman, D. (eds) Oceanography: The Past. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0_9
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