CSHL Archives Repository

Preserving and promoting the history of molecular biology.

James D. Watson Collection

Date
1870/2012
Identifier
JDW

Description
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) 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.

Collection

Citation

“James D. Watson Collection,” CSHL Archives Repository, Reference JDW, accessed September 22, 2023, https://libgallery.cshl.edu/items/show/29326.