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 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 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 Miscellaneous subseries consist of various files collected by Watson while teaching at Harvard. These are primarily administrative files, such as expenditures, payroll information, academic schedules, Harvard publications and clippings. Of note…
The Lab Applicants subseries is composed of letters addressed to Watson by students seeking research positions in his laboratory. The files include numerous curricula vitae, as well as a smaller number of reprints.
The Committee Files subseries contains materials related to committees Watson served on while at Harvard University, including the Committee on Higher Degrees in Biochemistry, the Committee on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Biochemistry…
The Correspondence subseries consists of letters sent and received while employed as a professor at Harvard University. This includes both departmental (Biology Department and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), and administrative…
The Courses subseries consists of course materials, such as lecture notes (many handwritten by Watson), exams, grades, syllabi, reference lists, and problem sets. Dr. Watson taught several courses while at Harvard, including Biochemistry, Biology,…