Spencer Lens Microscope
Spencer Lens Microscope #58, Buffalo, NY. America’s first microscope maker. Used by Dr. Paul Swain from 1947-1965. Displayed in its carrying case with manual, “How to Use and Care for the Microscope.”
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The Mouseion at the JAXlibrary
Nobel Prize
Geneticist George Snell (1903-1996) shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset for the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of the mouse and the first known MHC, key to...
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Staats in the Library
Librarian Joan Staats (1921-2000), an international authority on mouse scientific literature, assists a user in the library in 1975. The new Library opened in 1972 and was eventually named in honor of Staats, who worked at JAX from 1949...
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Russell in mouse room, circa 1950
Elizabeth “Tibby” Russell (1913-2001) worked at JAX from 1937 until her retirement in 1978. She did pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells. She also lead the successful effort to rebuild the mouse colonies...
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Mouse and Microscope
In 1947, a catastrophic forest fire ravaged most of Mount Desert Island, including the Laboratory and the majority of its mouse colonies. This microscope is one of the few artifacts remaining from that era.
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- Legacy Mouse Strain Subject Bibliography
- Student Reports
Welcome to The Jackson Laboratory Joan Staats Library's Mouseion [mouse-say-on], the ancient "Seat of the Muses" of the Library of Alexandria, revisited today as a modern-day digital repository containing more than 90 years of the scientific research discoveries and history of The Jackson Laboratory.
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