Walter Gilbert Collection
Date: 1946
Collection • Identifier WAG
- The Walter Gilbert Collection documents the scientific career of Nobel Prize winning scientist Walter “Wally” Gilbert. It includes material accrued while a student (Sidwell Friends School, Harvard University, Cambridge University), professor (Harvard University), and as a pioneering entrepreneur in the field of biotechnology (Biogen). The collection includes course notebooks, lecture notes and teaching files, scientific papers, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, and material related to receiving the Nobel Prize.
Peter Lobban Collection
Date: 1968
Identifier PL
- This collection consists of two laboratory notebooks from Peter Lobban when he was a postgraduate student in Department of Biochemistry in the Stanford Medical School.
Matthew Meselson Collection
Date: 1940
Collection • Identifier MSM
- The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection (1948-2022) is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the
California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 underLinus Pauling , his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work withFranklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor atHarvard University beginning in 1960. It also includes decades of materials, mainly correspondence, concerning Meselson’s self-described “hobby:” biological and chemical weapons research and political activism for control and disarmament. The collection consists of correspondence, laboratory files, course notebooks, photographs, reprints, X-ray films, and graphs. Many materials are related to X-ray crystallography, DNA replication, andDrosophila sequencing and heat shock proteins.
Leonard D. Hamilton Collection
Collection • Identifier LDH
- The Leonard D. Hamilton Collection is comprised of material relating to Hamilton’s contributions to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins's identification of the double helical structure of DNA which earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. The bulk of the collection pertains to Hamilton’s collaboration with Wilkins, to whom Hamilton was the primary supplier of DNA samples. The collection includes correspondence, laboratory notes, manuscript drafts, reprints, and photographs.
Janet Mertz Collection
Collection • Identifier JMZ
- The Dr. Janet Mertz Collection is comprised of materials accumulated during her time at the graduate school of Stanford University. A majority of the materials are laboratory notebooks and slides from work in Paul Berg’s lab in the biochemistry department, and the research leading up to and following the creation of the first recombinant DNA. The collection also includes her 1975 thesis and email correspondence with producers Meredith DeSalazar and Lily Garrison for two separate documentaries made in 2019 and 2020.
Tricia Loria, Stephanie Satalino, Maoyen Chi, Mila Pollock, James Watson, Liz Watson
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Audio Visual Collection
- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Audio Visual Collection consists of Hi-8s, Mini DVs, Audio Cassettes, DVDs and Analog Video Formats (Betacam, Betacam SP, D-3 ½ Digital, Professional Broadcast Video, Telecine), Video Cassettes and 1 inch Type C Helical Video Reels. The recordings are of lab scientists and events at both internal and external locations.
S-Matrix Theory and Higher Order Corrections to Weak Interactions, 1964
S-Matrix Theory and Higher Order Corrections to Weak Interactions, 1964
S-Matrix Theory and Higher Order Corrections to Weak Interactions, 1964
S-Matrix Theory and Higher Order Corrections to Weak Interactions, 1964
Stanford Notes, Parts IV and V
- Stanford Notes, Parts IV and V. Recombinant DNA.
Stanford Notes, Parts II and III
- Stanford Notes, Parts II and III. Recombinant DNA. (Abstract)
Scientific Papers by Gilbert (36 folders), 1961-1966, 1975-1982
Laboratory Notebook 4: In Vitro 56-80/FR 16-41/RNA 1-21, 1985 - 1986
Laboratory Notebook: Cloning Mutant Telomerase RNAs, 1988 - 1989
Presentation to Biogen N.V., January 1986
Harlem DNA Lab Opening Celebration Brochure, 2008
- Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
RNA Component of Mouse, Rat, Chinese Hamster, and Bovine Telomerase, 2 March 1999
Sidwell Friends School: Coursework (3 of 3), c. 1948
Cambridge Coursework: Applied Physics 295 (3 of 3), 1956
David's Correspondence (David Dressler), 1968 - 1969
Selection of scans of meeting abstracts, photographs, and lab notebooks, 2018
- This material was received by the archives on two CD-ROMs. They include an annotated copy of the 1972 Tumor Virus Meeting Abstracts, photographs of Janet Mertz from 1972-1983, a hand drawn diagram by Doogab Yi, and scanned chapters from Mertz laboratory notebooks.
Signed Letter to Senator Trent Lott, Senate Majority Leader, 1997
Szilard-Meselson Correspondence, 1962 - 2020
"I used to read my magazine / 'Til it was sprayed with Triazine. / LITERATURE CITED / 1. Bird / 2. Herskowitz and Schalet / 3. Rapaport / 4. Schalet"
, 1955
"Said a man who is known as Lamarck, / Of giraffes eating leaves in a Park: / 'One thing is true / Of our friends in the zoo, / When the leaves are all gone they'll eat bark.'"
, 1955
"Amitosis is a means / For unlike quantities of genes / To enter daughter nuclei, / Causing many cells to die."
, 1955
Photographs (4) and magazine clipping from Hermann’s trip to Europe, 1922
Photograph of Hermann with other passengers at a beer contest on a ship, 1932
Photograph of a young boy (David Muller?) feeding goats while they crowd around him at a park or zoo
, c. 1933
Photograph of young boy (David Muller?) and young girl feeding goats at a zoo or park, c. 1933
Photograph of Georg Griesmaier and Ada Muller Griesmaier posing together outside
, 1932
1969, S.B. Ullman request for help with research, writing samples enclosed
Nature, May 1968, Vol. 218, No. 5142 and Science, March 1968, Vol. 159, No. 3822, 1968
"DNA Models and Reality," drafts and notes (1 of 4), 1968
"DNA Models and Reality," drafts and notes (4 of 4), 1968
Lymphocyte Symposium, International Academy of Pathology, Boston, 1959
DNA x-ray diffraction images and negatives, 1953 - 1963
Moore and Stein, notes on Nucleoprotein, "Amberlite XE-69 Procedure.", 1955 - 1956
Correspondence relating to Watson's letter to Science, 1969
2010, Correspondence and article related to the lost correspondence of Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins
Seeds, William E. (Bill), 1955 - 1957
Struther Arnott, DNA articles and Maurice Wilkins memoir, 2007
LiDNA preparations, NaDNA preparations, tumor experiments with Dr. Moore, 1960 - 1962
Diagrams - Introns/Exons - for overhead projections, 1980s
RECOMB 2000: The Distinguished Biology Lecture, 2000
Laboratory Notebook 2: In Vitro 8-25, 1984 - 1985
Laboratory Notebook 5: In Vitro 81-85/FR 42-69/RNA 22-28
, 1986 - 1987
Laboratory Notebook 9: In Vitro 124-150, 1989 - 1990
Cambridge Coursework: Applied Physics 295 (1 of 3), 1956
National Science Foundation Fellowship Correspondence, 1955
Sub-Series I: Structure of N,N'-Dimethylmalonamide, 1953 - 1957
Sub-Series I: Eighth Day of Creation, Judson, Horace F., 1993 - 2013
Series VIII: Memorabilia and Ephemera, 1946 - 2011
- The MEMORABILIA AND EPHEMERA series consists of personal memorabilia, photographs, ephemera, material related to Gilbert’s Nobel Prize, and various awards and honors collected by Gilbert from 1946-2008. The series includes his grades from Sidwell Friends School, material related the Science Clubs of America Talent Search, letters announcing scholarship awards and his professorship appointments at Harvard University, material related to travel (including notes on a trip to China, 1980), and three books documenting Gilbert’s art exhibitions (2007-2011). Photographs found in the series include portraits commissioned by Harvard (1960s-1970s), Biogen meetings (1977-1982), and a series of scientific photographs obtained by a young Gilbert from the Franklin Institute (1947). Also included are two scrapbooks, one related to the Nobel Prize (1981) and the other assembled for his 60th Birthday Symposium at Harvard University (1992). Material related to his Nobel Prize in Chemistry include congratulatory letters, ephemera (booklets, invitations, programs, etc.), and his Nobel Prize medal (1980). Finally, the series also includes numerous awards, honorary degrees, and framed certificates awarded to Gilbert throughout his life. These include his diploma from Sidwell Friends School (1949), the 1979 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, and the 1991 Entrepreneur of the Year trophy, awarded to Gilbert for his work at Biogen.
National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. Membership Certificate, 1967
Altenburg, Edgar to Sturtevant with notes and contributions by Muller (copy), 1940
"The Hot Polar Bears* / Fallout ash in the North left a bear / With a few sperm alive and to spare, / But when he met a she / And they made number three / The cub froze-- 'twas deficient for hair. / *Study made under the auspices of the International Commission for Radiological protection of bears."
, 1955
"There once was a fruit-fly named Joan, / Whose affair with a brash Protozoan / Gave results aggravating / When, soon after the mating, / All her offspring flew off as a clone."
, 1955
Midterm Examination for the Indiana University course Zoology Z575
, 1957
Russian postcard from Raisa Berg to Herman J. Muller
, 1935
Picture Postcard, Ada [Muller Greismaier] to Jessie, 15 July 1932
Tipton, Isabel H., Lithium Chloride Analyses, 1956 - 1959
Reprints - Genetics Gene Metabolism, 1940 - 1949
Wyatt, G.R.; Crick, Francis; Broomhead, June M.; Donohue, Jerry; Cochran, W.; Parry, G.S.; Acta Crystallographica, v.7 p. 4, 10 April 1954, 1948 - 1957
DNA diagrams, x-ray crytallography prints, c.1950s-1960s
Slides from ASARCO Incorporated with label: "Contains information from American Mining Congress.", 1980s
Reprints - Genetic diseases, 1957 - 1958
Manuscripts and notes, includes correspondence with Wilkins
1962-1963, Includes correspondence with Struther Arnott
1963-1964, Includes correspondence with Watson Fuller
Sub-Series III: The Double Helix Controversies surrounding James Watson’s book, 1964 - 2007
Notes, correspondence, and clippings relating to Crick's death
Li and Na DNA notes, correspondence, 1959 - 1960
"Nucleic Acid Metabolism in Leukemia" by Hamilton at the University of Texas, notes and drafts, 1961
"Beta Blockers in the treatment of hypertension," slides and letter from Richard H. Roberts, GEIGY Pharmaceuticals, c.1960s
Notebook: Genomes of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts, 1993 - 1995
Slides (1 binder and loose sheets), 1980s-1990s
Laboratory Notebook: Group Meetings/Monoclonal; CSHL, 1988 - 1994
Series II: Rotation Notes & Group Meetings, 1983 - 1994
Letters About Me Becoming CEO, May-June 1981