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Plenary Lecture delivered at Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze, Italy before the Opening Ceremony of the International Symposium "From Man to Gene - From Gene to Man" - "Accepting Human Existence as the Product of the Evolution of DNA" (1 November 1986)

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)

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis - "Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life" (10 April 1987)

James W. Colbert Lecture, Medical University of South Carolina - "RNA and the Origin of Life" (16 April 1987)

Heberden Medical Historical Society, Cornell University Medical College (21 April 1987)

Symposium in Retroviruses and Disease, The Public Health Research Institute (11 November 1987)

Biotechnology in Schools Conference, Westminster, London - VIP Lecture (20 November 1987)

Advancements in Molecular Biology, Perkin-Elmer Corporation (10 March 1988)

Hearing to examine the scientific and policy issues underlying the project to map and sequence the human genome, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives (27 April 1988)

Waskman Centennial and Honorary Degree, Rutgers University - "Choosing to Work with DNA" (19 May 1988)

25th Annual Medical Student Research Day, University of Alabama School of Medicine - "Human Genome Project" (15 November 1988)

National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) 50th Anniversary Convention - "DNA Today" (19 November 1988)

Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University (8 February 1989)

Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, CUNY - "The Human Genome Project" (1 March 1989)

Westinghouse Science Talent Search, National Academy of Sciences (3 March 1989)

Smithsonian Institution Lecture, "Mapping the Human Genome" (5 April 1989)

Dean's Forum, University of Pennsylvania - "Genetic Determinism in Humans" (13 April 1989)

Bicentennial Conference on Global Interdependence in Science, Medicine, and Technology in an Era of Cooperation and Competition, Academy of Sciences at Philadelphia - "Mapping the Human Genome" (4-5 May 1989)

Paris and Sardinia Lectures (16-24 May 1989)

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA - "RNA Tie Club" (15 July 1989)

Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future - "The Future of Biotechnology" (28 September 1989)

American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD - "The Human Genome Project" (15 November 1989)

Biology and Medicine into the 21st Century Symposium, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NY - "Oncogenes and Antioncogenes" (18 November 1989)

The Human Genome Project is Finally Underway (28 November 1989)

Health Care in the Nineties: Can We Afford a Healthier Society?, Washington Journalism Center (25 January 1990)

Purdue University - "Growing Up With DNA" (27 February 1990)

Eli Lilly Lectures, Ely Lilly and Company - "Human Genome Initiative" (28 February 1990)

Genetics and Society Silver Jubilee Symposium, University of Leicester, England - "The Human Genome Initiative" (7 April 1990)

Princeton University - "Implementing the Human Genome Project" (18 April 1990)

Gene Expression and Signal Transduction International Symposium, University of California, Irvine - " From the RNA Tie Club to Ribosomes" (23 April 1990)

SUNY Stony Brook (30 April 1990)

92nd St. Y, New York City - "Gene Mapping" (7 May 1990)

Council of Scientific Society Presidents - "Mapping the Human Genome" (8 May 1990)

Wilmot Lecture, University of Rochester Medical Center - "Oncogenes and Antioncogenes" (7 June 1990)

Global Responsibilities and National Interests, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN (20 June 1990)

Caracas, Venezuela (26 June-2 July 1990)

Decade of the Brain Symposium, Institute of Medicine - "The Brain Frontier Beyond the Human Genome" (18 July 1990)

Genome Sequencing Meeting, Belgium (D. Collen Research Foundation) - "Human Genome Initiative" (18-23 September 1990)

AAHC (Association of Academic Health Centers) Annual Meeting - "Human Genome Project" (4 October 1990)

National Academy of Sciences Dinner (17 October 1990)

Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting - "The Human Genome Initiative" (21 October 1990)

Grand Rounds Meeting, National Cancer Institute (NCI) (31 October 1990)

Nelson Rosenthall Convocation, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City - "The History of DNA" (1 November 1990)

William Cullen Bryant Lecture, Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY - "DNA in the Public Arena" (4 November 1990)

Workshop on International Cooperation, Valencia, Spain (November 1990)

Human Genome Project Talk

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

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)

Plenary Lecture delivered at Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze, Italy before the Opening Ceremony of the International Symposium "From Man to Gene - From Gene to Man" - "Accepting Human Existence as the Product of the Evolution of DNA" (1 November 1986)

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