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Zinder, Norton D.

 Person

Biography

Norton Zinder, a New Yorker, received his A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1947 and went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a Ph. D. in 1952. As a graduate student, he discovered bacterial transduction , showing that Bacteriophage can carry genetic material from a donor to recipient bacteria. He returned to New York in 1952 to Rockefeller University (then known as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) as an Assistant. At Rockefeller he was later appointed an Associate in 1956, Associate Professor in 1958 and Professor in 1964, and later appointed Dean of Graduate and Post Graduate studies. In 1977 he was designated the John D. Rockefeller Professor of Molecular Genetics. During these Rockefeller years, he made significant findings regarding small RNA and DNA infected with bacteriophage and continued his molecular biology research until his retirement from Rockefeller University in 1989.

Zinder served in the national policy arenas as a member of the Board of Army Science and Technology and as the chair of the NIH committee to review the National Cancer Plan as well as the advisory committee of the Human Genome Project. Elected to the National Academy of Science in 1969, he served on committees addressing Recombinant DNA, overseeing the disposal of US chemical weapon stockpiles and chemical warfare defense. He has been a member of the Visiting Committees at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Duke Universities. Zinder also served on the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Lab from 1967 to 1986 (including as Secretary to the Board). Dr. Zinder died in New York on February 3, 2012 at the age of 83.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Meselson with Other Scientists, 1961 - 1997

 File — Box 32, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSM_b12_f04_001
Scope and Content From the Collection: The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection is composed of two record groups: Professional Materials and Chemical and Biological Warfare Materials.Materials in Record Group I were accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 under Linus Pauling, his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work with Franklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor at Harvard...
Dates: 1961 - 1997

Norton Zinder, 2004-11-22

 Item
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates: 2004-11-22

Norton Zinder Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2012-014

Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH
Scope and Contents The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates: 1990 - 2024

James D. Watson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: JDW
Abstract 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,...
Dates: 1800s-2022

Y-Z, 1969 - 1981

 File — Box 7, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSM_b05_f18_001
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Of particular note in this subseries is the correspondence between Meselson and Jean Weigle (University of Geneva) in which they discuss Meselson's experiments on transduction (1959-1962).

Dates: 1969 - 1981

Zinder, Norton, 1961-1989

 File — Box CP20, Folder: 11
Identifier: SB_1_1_799

Norton Zinder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: NDZ
Abstract The Norton Zinder Collection documents the academic life and career of Norton Zinder a geneticist and microbiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller University, and trustee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Zinder was an active participant in five dynamic decades of biological science, emerging from the confines of the laboratory to national and international arenas addressing political and moral issues such as recombinant DNA research guidelines, the demilitarization of chemical...
Dates: 1934-2010

Zinder, Norton (Includes CSHL material), 1967 - 1993

 File — Box CR44, Folder: 27
Identifier: JDW_02_02_2069_001
Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence series includes handwritten and typed letters, carbon copies, postcards and notes dating from 1916-2012. The bulk of the material covers Watson’s sojourn in Cambridge (1951-1954), Harvard (1956-1975) and as Director (1968-1994), President (1994-2003), Chancellor (2003-2007), and Chancellor Emeritus (2007-2011) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson’s career at the Copenhagen Crystallography Lab and time at California Institute of Technology are...
Dates: 1967 - 1993

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Archival Object 15
Collection 3
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
Lectures and lecturing 3
RNA 3
Sample requests 3
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules. 2
Bacteriophages 2
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Cambridge (Mass.) 2
Escherichia coli 2
Human genome 2
Nobel Prize winners 2
Nobel Prizes 2
Recombinant DNA 2
Salmonella 2
Abortion 1
Adenoviruses 1
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
Articles and Clippings 1
Awards and Prizes 1
Bacterial genetics 1
Banbury Center 1
Bar Association of the City of New York 1
Biochemistry 1
Biogen (Firm) 1
Biotechnology 1
Biotechnology Patents 1
Bloomington (Ind.) 1
Cambridge (England) 1
Cancer 1
Cancer--Research 1
Celera Genomics 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Cloning 1
Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) 1
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Press 1
Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 1
Committee on Genetic Experimentation 1
Copenhagen (Denmark) 1
Correspondence 1
Course Outlines, Teaching Files and Lecture Notes 1
DNA 1
DNA Replication 1
DNA--Structure 1
Durham (N.C.) 1
Employment 1
Experiments 1
Genetic Systems Corp 1
Genetics 1
Genomes 1
Human Genome Project 1
Human Genome Project--Economic aspects--United States. 1
Human Genome Project--Moral and ethical aspects 1
Human Genome--Patents 1
Human genome--Congresses. 1
Invitations 1
Johnston Island 1
Lab Notebooks 1
Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 1
Long Island (N.Y.) 1
Membership 1
Memorabilia 1
Microbiology 1
Molecular Biology 1
Mutagenesis 1
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 1
National Research Council (U.S.) 1
National Research Council (U.S.).Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons 1
National Science Foundation Advisory Council (U.S.) 1
Neurobiology 1
New England Biolabs 1
New York 1
Nucleotide sequence 1
Photographs 1
Princeton (N.J.) 1
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1
Proteins--Synthesis 1
Retroviruses 1
SV40 (Virus) 1
Science Study and teaching 1
Scientific Papers 1
Scientific Research 1
Slides (Photographs) 1
Thank-you notes 1
Tobacco Mosaic Virus 1
Transduction 1
UK Human Genome Mapping Project 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Chemical warfare 1
Viruses 1
Washington (D.C.) 1
World Economic Forum. Meeting 1
X-ray crystallography 1
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