The Ph.D. Courses and Dissertation Research subseries includes laboratory notebooks and course work from his time at Indiana University, where he studied under Hermann J. Muller and Salvador E. Luria. While most of the research was conducted in…
The Copenhagen Laboratory Research subseries includes laboratory notebooks from Watson's brief stay in Denmark. After completion of his dissertation in 1950, Watson headed to Copenhagen for a year to continue his study of phage replication in the…
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) subseries includes laboratory notebook's from Watson's tenure in Southern California. Here he continued to work on DNA, while at the same time began focusing on the problems presented by RNA.
The Harvard Medical School Research subseries includes laboratory notebooks from Watson's time at Harvard. In 1956 Watson joined the faculty at Harvard University to teach courses in Zoology. From 1958 to 1961, he conducted additional laboratory…
The Subjects series includes general subject files created and collected by James D. Watson throughout his life. The series includes obituaries of friends and colleagues written by Dr. Watson, material collected for the unpublished RNA Tie Club book,…
The RNA Tie Club subseries is composed of material used to assemble the RNA Tie Club book, which was conceived in the 1970s but never published. The subseries includes correspondence with George Gamow, copies of papers distributed to RNA Tie Club…
The Phage Studies subseries is primarily composed of a series of Phage Information Service newsletters published between 1948 and 1956. The study of bacterophages was of particular interest to Dr. Watson early in his scientific career. The subseries…