T Flask from the laboratory of Dr. Wilton Robinson Earle (1902-1964), a cell biologist who spent his career at the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service and the National Cancer Institute, and who developed the "T" flask for growing cell cultures.
Ref: “Dr. Wilton Earle, Biologist, 61, Dies,” New York Times (June 7, 1964), p. 86.
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