James D. Watson
Description
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 the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the Director (and later President and Chancellor) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research.
The collection includes photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, administrative records, teaching files, memorabilia, reprints, and various other records.
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James D. Watson Collection
The James D. Watson Collection documents the life and career of James D. Watson, co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the Director (and later President and Chancellor)…
Photographs
The James D. Watson Photograph Collection consists of a wide-array of photographic prints, negatives, digital files, and slides. Photographs date from 1870s to 2011. Watson
Family and Childhood
The Family and Childhood series consists of photographs of the Watson family, dating back to the 1870s. Included are portraits, family vacation photographs, class pictures, and holiday snapshots. Subjects include his great grandparents,…
Elizabeth L. Watson and Children
The Elizabeth L. Watson and Children series contains photographs of Watson's wife, Elizabeth Lewis Watson, and his two children, Rufus and Duncan.
College, Grad, and Post-Doc
The College, Grad, and Post-Doc series documents Watson's time at the University of Chicago, the University of Indiana, Copenhagen, and the Cavendish at the University of Cambridge.
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