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Boston Scientific was formed June 29, 1979, in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a holding company for the medical products company, Medi-Tech, Inc., and to position the company for growth in interventional medicine. [ 6] Medi-Tech was the brainchild of Itzhak Bentov, a Czech-born émigré to Israel and then to the United States, who worked at the ...
La Selva Biological Station is located in the Central Conservation Area (91,000 ha) in the north-eastern lowlands of Costa Rica (10°26´ N, 83°59´ W). [3] It encompasses 1,536 ha of classic-lowland tropical rain forest. The Sarapiquí and Puerto Viejo Rivers border the Station to the north, the Peje River to the west, and the Sábalo-Esquina ...
The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)/Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET), founded in 1963, [1] is a non-profit consortium of over 50 universities and research institutions based in the United States, Latin America, [2] and South Africa. OTS manages a network of ecological research stations in Costa Rica and South Africa.
T. Guy F. de Téramond. Categories: Costa Rican people by occupation. Scientists by nationality. North American scientists by nationality. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Universities and colleges in Costa Rica (3 C) Categories: Scientific organizations by country. Scientific organizations based in North America by country. Science and technology in Costa Rica. Organizations based in Costa Rica by subject.
The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura ( Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture) is a science and culture museum complex in Costa Rica. Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994. It contains a number of important institutions ...
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ( Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest.
The Academia Nacional de Ciencias (ANC, English: National Academy of Sciences) is Costa Rica 's Academy of Sciences. It was created as a “permanent forum for discussion and scientific analysis,” [1] and serves both as an honorific society and a source of scientific advice for the government. Its mandate is to promote scientific culture and ...