Olby, Robert C. (Robert Cecil)
Person
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Robert Olby to Sydney Brenner #1, 9/3/1968
Item — Box CP12, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_475_1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
9/3/1968
Letter from Robert Olby to Sydney Brenner #2, 25/03/1970
Item — Box CP12, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_475_2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
25/03/1970
Letter from Robert Olby to Sydney Brenner #3, 13/03/1970
Item — Box CP12, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_475_3
Abstract
Enclosure of Robert Olby's manuscript about Crick and Brenner.
Dates:
13/03/1970
Olby, Robert, 1969
File — Box FC03, Folder: 35
Identifier: SB_11_01_0092_001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains material that belonged to Francis Crick, but was stored with Sydney Brenner's papers after Crick left MRC. The material is divided into 8 subseries: Correspondence, Candidates/Recommendations, Subjects, Photographs, Writings - By Crick, Manuscripts - By Others, Reprints, and Scientific Notes. Of note is a series of correspondence between Crick and Maurice Wilkins dating from the discovery of the Double Helix structure (Correspondence subseries), and a rolled document...
Dates:
1969
Olby, Robert, 1968-2005
File — Box CP12, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_475
Abstract
1968; 1970; 2005
Dates:
1968-2005
Robert C. Olby Collection
Collection
Identifier: RCO
Abstract
The Robert C. Olby Collection (1960-2008) is comprised of materials accrued by Robert Olby during the research, writing, and publication of various history of science monographs and articles, including Origins of Mendelism (1966) and Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (2009). It includes correspondence, archival research, drafts and galley proofs, photographs, lecture notes, reprints, and...
Dates:
1939-2017; Majority of material found within 1960-2008
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Olby, Robert C., 1967 - 1974
File — Box CR31, Folder: 26
Identifier: JDW_02_02_1345_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 - 1974
Printed e-mail message from Robert Olby to Sydney Brenner, with handwritten response from Brenner, 10/10/2005
Item — Box CP12, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_475_16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
10/10/2005
Series 1: History of Science: Archives and Oral History (April 3-5), 2005
Series
Scope and Contents
This meeting took a historical role of scientific archives and discussed the importance of oral history in the development of science. Participants examined the challenges and perspectives posed to scientific libraries and archives in the digital age. Participants included: Peter Hirtle, Robert C. Olby, E.M. Tansey, Peter J. Wosh. See http://library.cshl.edu/Meetings/hsci/ for a complete list.
Dates:
2005
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- Genetics--History. 1
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- University of California, San Diego. University Library. Mandeville Department of Special Collections 1
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