by Adam Marcus
CLOSING BELL	Buy your own lab Could the sale of an active observatory to a private couple suggest a new science funding model? Email: Adam Marcus - amarcus@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(21):56 Published   7 November 2005

Anyone can buy naming rights to a star, but Gary and Linda Dower are hoping to pick up their very own observatory. The couple, who own the deluxe Mirbeau Inn & Spa in New York's Finger Lakes region, have offered $10 million to the University of Chicago for the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis. – one of the nation's most historically important, if no longer scientifically advanced, observatories.

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