The Repository
Contains over 380,000 online documents from Nobel laureates' James D. Watson's and Sydney Brenner's personal collections. These collections consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, laboratory notebooks, administrative records, teaching files & memorabilia.
The repository and metadata were created in part, through a two-year grant funded collaboration with the Wellcome Library's Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics digitization project.
Finding Aids for the majority of the 53 collections on the history of molecular biology are available on our CSHL Archives and Digital Collections websites.
The Collections
James D. Watson
The James D. Watson Collection consists of over 500 manuscript boxes of materials documenting the life and career of James D. Watson, co-recipient of…
Sydney Brenner
The Sydney Brenner Collection consists of over 300 manuscript boxes of materials documenting the life and career of Dr. Sydney Brenner, co-recipient…
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RNA Tie Club, Cambridge
Photograph of Francis Crick, Alex Rich, Leslie Orgel, and James Watson in Cambridge wearing their RNA ties
Copenhagen
Various photographic prints from Watson's post-doctoral studies in Copenhagen and later meetings which were also held in the city. Of note are two…
Crick and Watson - Moscow Biochemical Conference
Francis Crick and James D. Watson at the Moscow Biochemical Conference, 1961.
Francis Crick with Cavendish X-ray Tube
Photographic print of Francis Crick with Cavendish X-ray Tube used in The Double Helix.