Caspar, Donald L. D.

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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Extensive collection consisting of over 2,000 offprints and reprints, mostly signed by James Watson (some annotated), some inscribed and signed by various scientific authors. Also included are galley proofs, and photocopies of research papers written by scientists, including James Watson, Sydney Brenner, Max Delbruck, Rosalind Franklin, Al Hershey, Linus Pauling and Max Perutz. The material includes a number of papers by his students and colleagues at Harvard,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Extensive collection consisting of over 2,000 offprints and reprints, mostly signed by James Watson (some annotated), some inscribed and signed by various scientific authors. Also included are galley proofs, and photocopies of research papers written by scientists, including James Watson, Sydney Brenner, Max Delbruck, Rosalind Franklin, Al Hershey, Linus Pauling and Max Perutz. The material includes a number of papers by his students and colleagues at Harvard,...

Scope and Contents Donald Caspar discusses the following in his interview: LIFE IN SCIENCE: Working at Caltech, Rosalind Franklin.JAMES D. WATSON: Time Spent at Harvard, Jim Watson, Jim Watson as a Young Man, Jim Watson on Rosalind Franklin, Jim Watson, Public Figure, Jim Watson’s Personal Recollections, Working with Jim Watson, Jim Watson, After Caltech, Jim Watson, Writer: Genes, Girls, and Gamow, Jim Watson, Writer: The Double Helix, Jim...

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Plant Viruses and Viroids, considered an area of great potential importance not only in molecular biology, but also with regard to practical application. These often strange infectious agents, apparently unique to plants, present possible new mechanisms by which genetic material may be replicated, perpetuated, and transmitted from cell to cell or from plant to plant.