Messing, Joachim W.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This meeting brought together the major researchers involved in DNA sequencing since its inception in the 1960s. Prominent guest speakers examined the history of sequencing and how the technology has transformed the biological sciences over the past five decades. Sequencing began with the British biochemist Fred Sanger, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. While studying nucleic acids in the early 1960s, Sanger figured out a way to sequence small sections of RNA. This work...

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This folder contains correspondence with Alexander Macrae, Anthony P. Mahowald, Rachel Ankeny Majeske, M.W. Makgoba, Thomas A. Mann, the March of the Dimes Award, Kenichi Matsubara, Robert M. May, Margaret McManus, Jacopo Meldolsei, Joachim Messing, Enrico Mihich, Kalim Mir, MIT, Mitokor, Hideo Mohri, Liz Morgan-Lewis, Julia Moxon, and Masa-aki Muramatsu.

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...