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) 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.

Wellcome Collection does not hold a digitised copy of all items in this collection. Items not digitised can be viewed in the reading room at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives. Please visit the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives website for full details.

1870-2012

558 boxes

Please note that CSHL holds copyright in writings by Watson that are held within Watson's archive in the CSHL Library and Archives, but does not hold copyright in Watson's writings held outside the CSHL Library and Archives. Copyright of material created by persons other than Watson, published or unpublished, is retained by its original author or rightsholder.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics. Not all sections within this collection have been digitised.

The majority of papers are open and available at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives unless otherwise stated. Please see individual items for access conditions.

The original material is held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.