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e 48-4434 [Internet Resource] Carnegie Institution for Science URL: http://carnegiescience.edu/
[Visited Jan'11] Founded in 1902 by Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Institution of Washington was designed to be "an organization for scientific discovery." In 2007, it became the Carnegie Institution for Science to avoid confusion with similarly named institutions. The Carnegie Institution conducts leading research in biology, global ecology, earth science, and astronomy and planetary science at laboratories in Maryland, California, and Washington, DC, and observatories in California and Chile....