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houses, sometimes ordered prefab fromi Sears and Roebuck. Even this did 

 not provide for the influx, however, so that during the 1930s the younger 

 researchers found it difficult to find a place in Woods Hole and increasingly 

 looked elsewhere, as others have done more recently for the same reasons. 

 The second world war brought its own post-war building expansion 

 and relative financial security so that more people could afford to buy 

 summer housing, or even permanent housing. Nobel laureate Albert Szent- 

 Gyorgyi, for example, arrived during this time (in 1947). He had visited the 

 lab in 1929 but would not have recalled it in particular, he said, because he 

 had visited so many marine laboratories and had not spent long in Woods 

 Hole. Except that his hosts then had prepared a clambake, complete with 

 lobsters, for the distinguished European visitors who made their way down 

 the coast from the International Congress of Zoology in Boston. When 



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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi on the beach at 

 Penzance. MBL Archives. 



