A Quote by Rene Dubos

In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

Rene Dubos

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Rene Dubos
French - Scientist
February 20, 1901 - February 20, 1982

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