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 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 Watson, material collected for the unpublished RNA Tie Club book,…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 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 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.