Historic Cannery Row
Edward F. Ricketts, owner-operator of Pacific Biological Laboratories, was described by a biographer as "a devoted and rational biologist who sought to uncover scientific truth." A true renaissance man, Ricketts wrote extensively on a wide variety of subjects ranging from Bach to Buddhism.Ricketts's book Between Pacific Tides, coauthored with Jack Calvin in 1939, is still considered a classic of intertidal marine ecology. In 1941 he coauthored with John Steinbeck The Sea of Cortez, a study that is widely recognized as a highly influential work on holistic ecology.
Between 1930 and 1948, Ricketts and Steinbeck shared a deep and complex friendship based on mutual respect. Steinbeck cast the scientist-philosopher Ricketts as various "Doc" characters in his novels and wrote of his friend, "His mind had no horizons. He was interested in everything."
| HM Number | HM11AZ |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, September 13th, 2014 at 9:23am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 10S E 598271 N 4052981 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 36.61730000, -121.90103333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 36° 37.038', W 121° 54.062' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 36° 37' 2.28" N, 121° 54' 3.72" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 408, 831 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 800 Cannery Row, Monterey CA 93940, US |
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