Research institutes, national laboratories and umbrella research organizations built to conduct science rather than to teach a student body: Bell Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, CERN, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Curie Institute, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max Planck Society, RIKEN, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution among them. The largest of the six institution groups in this atlas.
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1. Wikipedia: Royal Institution
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It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch.
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