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12th Meeting of the Panel on Science and Technology Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives - "Potential Consequences of Experimentation with Human Eggs" (28 January 1971) (1 of 3)

Transcripts, correspondence, program; Printed as "Moving Toward the Clonal Man"

Personal Papers

Lectures, Speeches, Interviews

Lectures

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conference - DNA Talk (April 1954)

Seminar Notes: "DNA"; Talk at Oak Ridge; "Replication of Viruses"; "How Molecules Duplicate Themselves"; National Academy Paper; "Protein Structure"; and "Some Relationships Between Nucleic Acids and Proteins"

Lectures on Bacterial Genetics (Spring 1954)

Lecture Notes: "A Chemical Comparison"; "The Structure of Plant Virus"; "Plant Virus Structure"; "Evidence for Sub Units Within RNA"; "Appendix on TMV RNA"; "Arrangement of RNA Upon Protein Shell"; "Structure of RNA"; "TMV Crystallographic Talk"; and "TMV" (Spring 1955)

Symposium on the Chemical Basis of Heredity, Johns Hopkins University - "Structure of RNA" (21 June 1956)

Polypeptide Seminar (October 1956)

Advanced Genetics Seminar - "Bacteriophage Recombination" (1 November 1956)

Harvard Cancer Committee - Speculative Talk (10 January 1957)

Harvard Medical School Seminar - "The Size of the Gene" (1 April 1957)

Microsome Seminar, University of Chicago - "Bacterial Ribonucleoprotein Particles" (8 November 1957)

George A. Miller Visiting Lecturer in  Bacteriology, University of Illinois - Six Lectures on the General Topic: Macromolecular Replication and Cell Growth (February-March 1958)

Cold Spring Harbor - "Structure and Replication of DNA" (30 June 1958)

Yale Biophysics Seminar - "Bacterial RNA Particles" (17 November 1958)

Seminar: "Viruses and Abnormal Cell Growth" (2 February 1959)

Lafayette Lecture, Purdue University - "The Replication of Genetic Material" (March 1959)

Princeton Seminar - "Bacterial Ribonucleoprotein Particles" (8 May 1959)

Warren Prize Lecture - "The Role of Nucleic Acids in the Viral Induction of Cancer" ( 18 May 1959)

Solvay Conference, Belgium- "Nucleotide Fragments from Acceptor Ribonucleic Acid" (1959)

Kansas City Talk

Eli Lilly Award Address - "Ribosomes" (15 September 1960)

DNA Structure and Replication

Meeting of the Overseers, Harvard - "Chemistry of Life" (9 January 1961)

Messenger RNA Seminars, Japan (September 1961)

Fort Dedrick - "Biological Warfare in the 1940s" (12 February 1962)

Undergraduate Colloquia (31 October 1962)

Chicago Lectures (Public Schools and University of Chicago) (8-11 November 1962)

Nobel Lecture - "The Involvement of RNA in the Synthesis of Proteins" (11 December 1962)

Berlin Lecture - "Protein Synthesis" (17 December 1962)

Ravello Meeting, Italy - "The Role of Ribosome in Protein Synthesis" (16-17 September 1963)

The Scope of Science, Wellesley College - "From Molecules to Man" (15-16 October 1963)

Nuclear Research Foundation Summer Science School Lectures, University of Sydney, Australia (January 1964)

French Biochemical Society Lecture - "The Synthesis of Proteins Upon Ribosomes" (6 April 1964) (1 of 4)

French Biochemical Society Lecture - "The Synthesis of Proteins Upon Ribosomes" (6 April 1964) (2 of 4)

French Biochemical Society Lecture - "The Synthesis of Proteins Upon Ribosomes" (6 April 1964) (Final Version for Publication: 11 June 1964) (3 of 4)

French Biochemical Society Lecture - "The Synthesis of Proteins Upon Ribosomes" (6 April 1964) (4 of 4)

Washington University - "The Role of Ribosome in Protein Synthesis" (23-24 April 1964)

University of Wisconsin - Biochemistry Talk (25 March 1965)

Seminar: Newton College - "Functioning of the Genetic Material (29 April 1965)

Biochem Colloquium, Munich - "Mistakes in Protein Synthesis" (31 May 1965)

Physikalisch-medizinische Gesellschaft, Wurzburg, Germany (2 June 1965)

Molecular Biology Symposium, Gottingen, Germany - "Ribosome and Protein Synthesis" (4 June 1965)

Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates War Memorial Auditorium Dedication (1965)

Problems in Protein Synthesis, Harvard Medical Society - "Starting and Stopping of Polypeptide Chains" (13 December 1966)

Ford Foundation East Africa Lecture Tour (1966) (1 of 2)

Ford Foundation East Africa Lecture Tour (1966) (2 of 2)

Advanced Study Institute of Molecular Biology, Spetsai, Greece (1966-1967)

Tallahassee Lecture (6 March 1967)

Ford Foundation Middle East Lecture Tour (May 1967)

17th Nobel Prize Winners Meeting, Lindau - "RNA Viruses and Protein Synthesis" (3-7 July 1967)

Fourth Annual Pathobiology Conference, Aspen - "Major Problems Remaining in the DNA -> RNA -> Protein Affair" (7 August 1967)

Natural Science Centennial Program, Hampton Institute (12-13 October 1967)

Yale Seminar - "RNA Phages" (8 December 1967)

Dartmouth Medical School Annual Lecture - "Writing the Double Helix" (3 May 1968)

CSHL RNA Phage Seminar (30 July 1968)

National Association of Manufacturers Science/Technology Group Meeting (31 October 1968)

CUNY Doctoral Program in Biology, Brooklyn College - "Structure and Function of E. Coli RNA Polymerase" (25 April 1969)

Material for Brooklyn, Swarthmore Lectures, Cornell (Spring 1969)

Nassau Notes - "Macromolecular Synthesis and Cell Growth"

Stockholm Lecture

Unidentified Scientific Lecture

Urbana Lecture 1

Urbana Lecture 2 - "Some Principles of Macromolecular Structure"

Urbana Lecture 3 - "Cellular Replication"

Urbana Lecture 4 - "Structure of RNA Containing Particles"

Urbana Lecture 5 - "Nucleic Acid Replication"

Urbana Lecture - Final - "The Control of Protein Synthesis"

Huntington Rotary Club - "War on Cancer" (19 June 1970)

British Society for Social Responsibility - "Molecular Biological Approach to the Cancer Problem" (28 November 1970)

12th Meeting of the Panel on Science and Technology Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives - "Potential Consequences of Experimentation with Human Eggs" (28 January 1971) (2 of 3)

12th Meeting of the Panel on Science and Technology Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives - "Potential Consequences of Experimentation with Human Eggs" (28 January 1971) (3 of 3)

Directors of Industrial Research Meeting - "Current Status of Cancer Research" (19 March 1971)

Technicon International Congress (12 June 1972)

Testimony of J.D. Watson before the Senate Health Subcommittee on the Quality of Medical Care (6 March 1973) (1 of 2)

Testimony of J.D. Watson before the Senate Health Subcommittee on the Quality of Medical Care (6 March 1973) (2 of 2)

Testimony of J.D. Watson before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment in Support of the National Health Research Fellowship and Traineeship Act of 1973 (20 March 1973) (1 of 2)

Testimony of J.D. Watson before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment in Support of the National Health Research Fellowship and Traineeship Act of 1973 (20 March 1973) (2 of 2)

Reactions and Comments

Frank Nelson Doubleday Lecture, National Museum of History and Technology - "The Dissemination of Unpublished Information" (29 January 1974)

Dedication of the Seeley G. Mudd Building, MIT - "Running Too Fast?" also known as "The Academic Community and Cancer Research" (6 March 1975)

Madeira School Building Dedication (Greenway, VA) - "Science and the American Scene" (17 October 1975)

Scientific American Conference (23-24 November 1975)

Weigle Lecture, Caltech - "The Induction of Cancer by DNA Containing Viruses" (6 January 1976)

John Hopkins Centennial Lecture - "The Impact of Molecular Biology on Cancer Research" (20 February 1976)

Yale University - "The Induction of Tumors by Adenoviruses" (3 March 1976)

Brooklyn College - "Discovery of DNA" (7 April 1976)

Long Island Biological Association (LIBA) Lecture - "New Looks into the Nature of the Cancer Cell" (11 April 1976)

Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation - "Why Tumor Cells May Be Less Sticky Than Normal Cells" (22 September 1976)

1976 Ravdin Lecture, American College of Surgeons, Chicago - "The Induction of Cancer by DNA Containing Virus" (13 October 1976)

University of Illinois Medical Center - "Ethics of Recombinant DNA" (14 October 1976)

Remarks before the Attorney General of New York - "Recombinant DNA Research - Are We Proposing Regulations Over Imaginary Dangers?" (21 October 1976)

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo - "Viruses and Cancer" (8-11 November 1976)

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook - "The Ethics of Experimentation with Recombinant DNA" (21 November 1976)

Cornell University - "The Ethics of Recombinant DNA" (29 November 1976)

Ernest Henderson Lecture, University of California, Davis (3 February 1977)

University of California, Santa Barbara (10 February 1977)

University of Oregon (3-4 March 1977)

University of California, Santa Cruz - "The Cancer Cell" (28 March 1977)

University of California, Irvine - "The Cancer Cell" (29 March 1977)

California State University - Visiting Scholar Program / DNA Talk (29-30 March 1977)

University of California, San Diego - "The Transformed Cell" (30 March 1977)

University of California, San Francisco (March 1977)

Ramapo College - "A Fragment from the Whole Risk Catalog" (16-17 November 1977)

W.R. Grace and Company - Washington Research Center - Cancer Research at CSHL (29 November 1977)

Long Island Business Review / Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) - "The Fading Away of Recombinant DNA" (8 December 1977)

Medgar Evers College - "How Cells Move" (14 December 1977)

The Lynen Lecture at the Miami Winter Symposium - "In Further Defense of DNA" (9 January 1978)

Bloomingdale's "Future of Science" Symposium, Boston and White Plains, NY (14 and 21 March 1978)

George Gamow Memorial Lecture, University of Colorado - "RNA Tie Club" (17 April 1978)

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research (April 1978)

Long Island Jewish Medical Center Research Seminar - "Twenty Five Years After the Double Helix" (9 May 1978)

New Direction in Medicine Symposium, Channing, Weinberg and Company (26 September 1978)

Adelphi University - "DNA and the Public Sector" (26 October 1978)

Workshop on the Molecular Biology of the Gene, Davos, Switzerland (19-22 March 1979)

COGENE / Royal Society Conference on Recombinant DNA - "Why the 'Berg' Letter Was Written" (1-4 April 1979)

Annual Science and Medical Lecture, University of Washington School of Medicine (14 May 1979)

Steenbock Symposium on Ribosomes, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Ribosomes Before the Messenger" (6 July 1979)

Joint International Symposium of the Club of Rome and the Center for the Reconstruction of Human Society (Seoul, Korea) - "The Necessity for Some Academic Aloofness" (29 October 1979) (1 of 2) [International Association of University Presidents]

Joint International Symposium of the Club of Rome and the Center for the Reconstruction of Human Society (Seoul, Korea) - "The Necessity for Some Academic Aloofness" (29 October 1979) (2 of 2)  [International Association of University Presidents]

Recombinant DNA Talk

University of Toronto - "How Cells Move" (11 March 1980)

Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY (9 April 1980)

Baker Memorial Lecture, American Laryngological Association Annual Meeting - "The Induction of Cancer by DNA Viruses" (14 April 1980)

Holland Lecture Tour - "Fluorescent Antibodies as Probes for Cell Structure" (5-10 May 1980)

National Town Meeting, Washington DC - "Decision for the '80s: Genetic Engineering" (25 September 1980)

International Symposium on Aging and Cancer, Washington DC (26 September 1980) (1 of 2)

International Symposium on Aging and Cancer, Washington DC (26 September 1980) (2 of 2)

IBM, Essex, Vermont - "The Recombinant DNA Revolution" (3 October 1980)

AMF Technical Conference - "Polymers and Life" (15 October 1980)

St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada - "The Scientific Rewards of Recombinant DNA" (12 November 1980)

Carnegie Museum of Natural History - "DNA: The Code of Life" (21 November 1980)

Harvard Club of New York City - "Genetic Engineering; DNA and the Faustian Dilemma" (16 December 1980)

Miscellaneous Lecture Notes

New Jersey Medical School (22 January 1981)

Glen Cove High School (NY) (4 February 1981)

LTV Washington Seminar, Washington DC - "Striving For Excellence" (9 February 1981)

Indiana State University - "Scientific Consequences of Recombinant DNA" (23 February 1981)

Langley Colloquium Series, College of William and Mary - "Recombinant DNA - The Insurance for Man's Future" (16 March 1981)

Medical University of South Carolina - "Monoclonal Anti-Bodies Against Cytoskeletal Proteins" (23-24 March 1981)

Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, University of Utah - "The Double Helix and Destiny" (29 March 1981)

Executive Seminar on Science, Technology, and Public Policy, U.S. Office of Personnel Management - "Genetic Engineering" (21 May 1981)

Kuratorium Fur Die Tagungen Der Nobelpriestrager, Lindau - "Monoclonal Antibodies as Tools for Analyzing Cell Structure (30 June 1981) (Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners)

COGENE/CNR Symposium, Rome (20-23 September 1981)

Dedication of the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building, Harvard University (2 October 1981)

Fredonia State University - "The Recombinant DNA Revolution" (14 October 1981)

Senate Hearing Testimony, Delegation for Basic Biomedical Research (3 February 1982)

Fairfield University (21 April 1982)

Cancer Research: Current and Future Scientific Prospects, Rockefeller University - "The Necessity for the Unexpected" (27 May 1982)

Dean's Conversations Among the Disciplines, Stony Brook (15 November 1982)

Research and Development Council of New Jersey - "The Future of Genetic Engineering" (8 December 1982)

Science Symposium, Jamaica High School (2 February 1983)

Medgar Evers College - "The Nature of Human Cancer Genes" (10 March 1983)

Queens College - "The Cancer Cell" (12 May 1983)

SUNY Downstate Medical Center (17 May 1983)

Technicon, Plaza Hotel, New York City (27 July 1983)

San Remo Talk, University of Genova - "Cancer at the DNA Level" (August 1984)

Indiana University Symposium in the Biological Sciences (4 October 1984)

Institute of Molecular Biology in Eugene, University of Oregon (6 October 1984)

International Workshop on the Applications of Genetic Engineering to Basic Biology and Agriculture, Lahore, Pakistan (21 October 1984)

Dean's Day, Columbia University - "Consequences of DNA" (2 March 1985)

Symposium on Economics and Technology, Stanford - "From Understanding to Manipulating DNA" (17 March 1985)

Porteledge School, Locust Valley, NY - Commencement Address (8 June 1985)

Crystallography and Molecular Biology Conference, Birkbeck College, Strasbourg, London - Concluding Remarks, "The Future of Crystallography in Molecular Biology" (12-21 September 1985)

SUNY / College at Old Westbury (4 December 1985)

McLean Lectures in Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine - "Accepting the Messages of DNA" (27 February 1986)

Rice University, Houston (28 February 1986)

Buenos Aires, Argentina Lectures (2-12 April 1986)

Cuadernos Universitarios, Universidad Nacional del Comahue (July 1986)

General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (8 October 1986)

12th Meeting of the Panel on Science and Technology Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives - "Potential Consequences of Experimentation with Human Eggs" (28 January 1971) (1 of 3)

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