BigHook2000 is named for a story that the late Woods Hole scientist, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi told. Before Szent-Gyorgyi came to Woods Hole he won the Nobel Prize for discovering Vitamin C. In Woods Hole, he found out a lot about muscle contraction, that is, how biology turns carbon and oxygen into physical force. Then he worked on cancer, that is, how cells decide when to divide. He went for the big problems.

"As for myself, I like only basic problems, and could characterize my own research by telling you that when I settled in Woods Hole and took up fishing, I always used an enormous hook. I was convinced that I would catch nothing anyway, and I thought it much more exciting not to catch a big fish than not to catch a small one."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1893 - 1986