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Nobel Prizes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Barbara McClintock Nobel Ceremony, 1983

 File
Identifier: PA_027_McClintock_Barbara_Nobel
Scope and Contents

"The Nobel Prizes 1983" Introduced by Angela Rippon from the Concert Hall Stockholm; includes history of the Nobel Prize; interviews with Nobel Prize winners including Lech Walesa, Subrahmanayan Chandra; William Alfred Fowler; Henry Taube; Barbara McClintock; William Golding; and Gerard Debreu.

Dates: 1983

Elof Carlson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EAC
Abstract

The Elof Carlson Collection documents the professional career of Dr. Elof Axel Carlson as a university level professor through his retirement to become a writer. Professionally, Dr. Carlson is best known for his biography of Nobel prize winning scientist Dr. Hermann J. Muller. The breadth and scope of the collection range from scientific research and laboratory notebooks to humorous essays on modern society.

Dates: 1866 - 2022

Edward Lewis, 2001-06-04

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Edward Lewis, Nobel prize winning geneticist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on June 24, 2001, at California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California.Scene 1. Childhood -- Scene 2. Morgan's laboratory at Columbia University -- Scene 3. Teaching -- Scene 4. Differences in the field of molecular biology over time -- Scene 5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 6. Barbara McClintock -- Scene 7. Barbara McClintock: Women in science - Nobel Prize -- Scene 8. Summers at Cold...
Dates: 2001-06-04

Walter Gilbert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WAG
Abstract The Walter Gilbert Collection documents the scientific career of Nobel Prize winning scientist Walter “Wally” Gilbert. It includes material accrued while a student (Sidwell Friends School, Harvard University, Cambridge University), professor (Harvard University), and as a pioneering entrepreneur in the field of biotechnology (Biogen). The collection includes course notebooks, lecture notes and teaching files, scientific papers, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, and...
Dates: 1946 - 2011

Carol Greider Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CWG
Scope and Contents The Dr. Carol Greider Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Greider during her postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1987, and her early work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1997-1992. The collection consists of computer printouts, correspondence, course notebooks, emails [printed], graphs, journal articles, laboratory notebooks, photographs, reprints, scientific notes and x-ray films. The date range is from 1975-1992. The materials are...
Dates: 1975 - 2000

Hamilton Smith, 2006-03-03

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Hamilton Smith, microbiologist and Nobel Laureate, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Jan Witkowski, on March 3, 2006, at the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, Maryland.Hamilton Smith discusses the following in his interview: Scene 1. An early interest in science -- Scene 2. From medicine to molecular biology -- Scene 3. Post-doctoral years with Mike Levine: P22 and the Int gene -- Scene 4. Arrival at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 5. The search for restriction...
Dates: 2006-03-03

Handwritten letter from Sydney Brenner to J. E. Dumont, 5/2/1997

 Item — Box CP04, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_140_123
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: 5/2/1997

Alfred Day Hershey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ADH
Abstract Documenting the personal life and professional activities of 1969 Nobelist Dr.A.D. Hershey, the Alfred Day Hershey Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence;academic publications, honors and awards; and records of research conducted at the Carnegie Institute ofWashington at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. It is divided into three record groups: Record Group I:Professional Papers, 1949-1997; Record Group II: Personal Papers, 1918-2000; and Record Group III:Photographs,...
Dates: 1918-2000

John Sulston, 2015-06-15

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents John Sulston is interviewed by Georgina Ferry and Mila Pollock on June 15, 2015. John Sulston discusses the following in his interview: LIFE IN SCIENCE: Advice to Young Scientists; Being Awarded the Nobel Prize; The Computer Programming Years 1984-1986; Collaboration with Alan Coulson; Working at MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Bob Waterston; Frederick Sanger; Biology of the Worm; Establishing the Sanger Centre; Mapping the Worm Genome; ...
Dates: 2015-06-15

Letter from J. E. Dumont to Sydney Brenner, 5/2/1997

 Item — Box CP04, Folder: 6
Identifier: SB_1_1_140_122
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: 5/2/1997