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Iona College - "Biology in the Era of Gene Cloning" (28 February 1991)

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) (1 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) (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)

Beckman Speech - "The Human Genome Project - A Vision of the Future" (10 April 1991)

California State University, Long Beach (11 April 1991)

Science and Technology Festival, Dublin, Ireland (13-14 April 1991)

Germany Lectures (22-24 April 1991)

American Museum of Natural History - "Growing Up With DNA" (23 May 1991)

President's Circle Meeting, Woods Hole (8 June 1991)

PEIR, Hofstra University (1991 June 18)

Civic Dinner Lecture, University of Chicago Centennial (5 October 1991)

The Biotech Meeting at Laguna Niguel - "Science Education in Secondary Schools: A Challenge to CEOs" (6-8 October 1991)

Washington University School of Medicine Centennial Celebration (10-11 October 1991)

International Federation of Science Editors (IFSE), Woods Hole Meeting, MA - "Global Communication" (13-18 October 1991)

Our Genes, Our Health: Implications for the Future of Medicine Symposium, University of Michigan - "Goals of the Human Genome Project" (8 November 1991)

MACUB Conference, Adelphi University - "Frontiers of Biology: The Human Genome" (9 November 1991)

University of Bergen, Norway - "A 100 Years of Research at The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" (4 December 1991)

Nobel Jubilee Week (5-11 December 1991)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM - "Search for the Genetic Code" (7 January 1992)

TASA Lecture, The Fifteenth Annual Trustees Awards for Scholarly Achievement, Long Island University / C.W. Post - "The Creative Mind" (13 February 1992)

Breneman Lecture, Indiana University - "The Human Genome Project" (27 February 1992)

5th Anniversary Gala, New York Hall of Science, NYC (3 March 1992)

John Bard Lecture Series, Bard College - "The Human Genome Project" (7 March 1992)

Reflections on Science Past and Future by Nobel Laureate Recipients, New York Hall of Science - "The Human Genome Project" (March 1992)

Iowa Humanities Symposium, University of Iowa - "The Next 10 Years in Human Genetics" (2 April 1992)

Capital Science Lecture, Carnegie Institute of Washington - "Genetic Code" (21 April 1992)

Sidwell Friends Upper School, Washington DC - "From the Double Helix to the Three Billion Steps of the Human Genome" (21 April 1992)

Science Center Dedication, Dowling College (28 April 1992)

American Heart Association Annual Awards Dinner (10 June 1992)

Meeting on Gene Therapies, Italy - "The Human Genome Project" (20 June 1992)

1992 Autumn Meeting and Pre-Doctoral Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin (15-18 September 1992)

Royal Society of Chemistry, Dublin, Ireland - "The Finding of the Genetic Code" (17 September 1992)

Winding Your Way Through DNA Symposium, University of California, San Francisco - "The Riddle of the Helix" (25 September 1992)

The Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Lecture, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL - "After the Double Helix" (6 October 1992)

Japan (October 1992) (1 of 3)

Japan (October 1992) (2 of 3)

Japan (October 1992) (3 of 3)

Remembering Ef: A Symposium Celebrating the Life of Ef Racker, Cornell University - "The RNA Tie Club" and "The Human Genome Project" (12-13 November 1992)

John Harvard Lecture, Harvard Club of London - "The Human Genome" (8 December 1992)

Keynote Address, Science Award Dinner, Cancer Research Institute, NYC - "The Human Genome Project" (25 January 1993)

Stellenbosch University, South Africa - "The Human Genome Project" and "My Life as a Scientist" (3-17 February 1993)

CSIR President Lecture Series, South Africa - "The Human Genome Project" (16 February 1993)

South Africa (February 1993)

An Evening of Moods, Medicine, and the Arts; National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, Washington DC (9 March 1993)

Sidwell Friends Upper School, Washington DC (9 March 1993)

Kennedy Political Union, American University (10 March 1993)

COGENE Symposium: 40th Anniversary of Double Helix, Paris - "Looking Forward" (23 April 1993)

Press Conference, Washington DC - "Early Speculations and Facts about RNA Templates" (27 April 1993)

Association of American Physicians, Washington DC (3 May 1993)

50th Anniversary Symposium, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (6 May 1993)

Kovler Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago - "From the Double Helix to the Human Genome" (20-21 May 1993)

Good Samaritan Hospital, West Islip, NY - "The Human Genome" (28 May 1993)

James Earl Ash Lecture, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC - "The Societal Implications of the Genome Project" (1 June 1993)

W.M. Keck Foundation Board of Directors' Meeting, Los Angeles - "The Future of Biomedical Research" (16 June 1993)

George B. Pegram Lecture Series, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY - "Beyond the Double Helix" and  (18-19 June 1993)

Bermuda - "Double Helix, Now 40 Years Old" (8 July 1993)

Health of Nations Conference 1993: Demand, Cost, and Efficiency; Edinburgh, Scotland - "Can and Will the Dilemmas be Solved?" Unscripted Panel to Close the Conference (1 October 1993)

A Celebration of Biomedical Science, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - "Genetics after Genomes" (8 October 1993)

The Double Helix: 40 Years Prospective and Perspective, University of Illinois at Chicago - "Values from a Chicago Upbringing" (14 October 1993)

National Conference on Biotechnology Ventures, Oxford Bioscience (1-3 November 1993)

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (11 November 1993)

An Evening with Jim Watson - "The Genetics of Cancer" (17 November 1993)

North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove - "The Impact of Genetic Information on the Practice of Medicine" (23 November 1993)

Testimony of James D. Watson before the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee - "Health is Wealth" (8 December 1993)

Oxford Innovation Society - "The Double Helix Today" (17 March 1994)

University of Oxford (March-July 1994)

Newton-Abraham Lecture, University of Oxford - "Early Research on the Genetic Code" (26 April 1994)

National Academies Policy Advisory Group Discussion Meeting (28 April 1994)

A Decade of PCR: Celebrating Ten Years of Amplication (CSHL Meeting) - Introduction (12 September 1994)

Sylvia and Herbert Berger Lecture, New York Academy of Medicine - "The Ethical Consequences of the Human Genome Project" (21 September 1994)

Cheltenham Literary Festival - Genetics Debate (10 October 1994)

Polanyi Chair Inaugural Talk, University of Toronto - "The Human Genome Project" (3 November 1994)

Oxford Union Society Debate (10 November 1994)

Ten Nobels for the Future Talk, Milan - "Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project" (7 December 1994)

Academie de Sciences, Paris - "Biotechnology and 'Humanism': The Role of the Biologist in Society" (26-27 January 1995)

Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, Princeton University (7 February 1995)

Testimony of James D. Watson before the Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee (28 February 1995)

The Human Frontier: DNA, Genes, and Molecular Biology; University of Oklahoma - "Historical Considerations and Sequencing the Entire Human Genome (The Human Genome Initiative)" (2 March 1995)

University of Limerick, Ireland - "Genetic Engineering: Friend or Foe?" (11 April 1995)

University College Galway, Ireland - "The Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project" (12 April 1995)

Keynote Address, Grainer Business Ethics Symposium: Business and the Genetic Revolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison (21 April 1995)

A Brief History of Phage and Bacterial Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor (24 July 1995)

Beadle Center Dedication, University of Nebraska - "DNA: Past, Present and Future" (22 September 1995)

The Brook Club, NYC (27 September 1995)

On Controlling Our Genetic Future - Good or Bad (17 October 1995)

First Annual James Watson Lecture, National Academy of Sciences (15 November 1995)

Concluding Remarks, Symposium cDNA Cloning 20 Years, Geneva (18 November 1995)

Louis S.B. Leakey Symposium: Genetics and Human Evolution, Stanford University - "An Historical Perspective and Outlook for the Future" (2 December 1995)

11th Symposium on Biotechnology: Genes and the Brain - Introduction (13 December 1995)

Institut de France - "Biotechnology and 'Humanism': The Role of the Biologist in Society" (27 January 1996)

Iona College - "Biology in the Era of Gene Cloning" (28 February 1991)

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