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
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…
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…
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A.C. Barrington Brown Photos
Photographic prints of Watson and Crick at the Cavendish laboratory posing with the double helix model shortly after their discovery was announced. …
Nobel Prize 2002
Sydney Brenner receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty the King at the Stockholm Concert Hall; The Nobel Laureates assembled at the Stockholm…
The Race to Discover the Secret of DNA - The Atlantic
Excerpts of Watson’s The Double Helix were originally published in The Atlantic.
Letter from Guido Pontecorvo to James D. Watson
Regarding controversy over The Double Helix manuscript