When the work at the Biological Laboratory was expanded in 1928 to include research in Biophysics, it accomplished two of Director Reginald Harris’s goals: the integration of other scientific disciplines into biological research at the Lab and the transition to a year-round research institute. Upon the suggestion of Dr. W.J.V. Osterhout, a Biophysicist and Bio Lab trustee, Dr. Hugo Fricke, an accomplished biophysicist, was appointed as the Lab’s first full-time investigator. The following year, the Walter B. James Memorial Laboratory was built explicitly for the application of physics to biological research.