Lake, James A. (James Albert)

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 2018. 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....

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This folder contains correspondence with James Lake, Marek J. Lassota, Stan Leibler, A.R. Lieberman, Elaine Lim, Hwa A. Lim, Christina Lingham, Paul Linser, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Manyuan Long, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Amand A. Lucas, and Andrew Lynch.

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 The meeting Molecular Clocks of Evolution discussed how a considerable amount of data has been produced using differences in DNA between different species to measure the relatedness of species. Some of the data obtained using DNA as a molecular clock have required radical revision of previously accepted taxonomic relationships, and the purpose of this meeting was to examine whether the assumptions underlying the use of molecular clocks are justified. Data was presented with time scales...