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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The Recombinant DNA Scare Director's Report
Watson’s 1976 CSHL Director’s Report on Recombinant DNA.
Watson and Family Speaking to the Press, Stockholm
Photographic prints of James D. Watson, his sister Elizabeth “Betty” Myers, and his father James D. Watson, Sr. arriving in Stockholm and speaking…
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. …
Letter from James D. Watson to Paul Weiss
In this letter Watson explains his reasons for leaving Copenhagen and moving to Cambridge to study the structure of DNA.