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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)

Champalimaud Symposium, Lisbon - "Judah Folkman, Angiogenesis, Metabolism, and the Curing of Cancer" (14 January 2011)

Johns Hopkins - "The 1953 Discovery of the Double Helix" (26 January 2011)

Johns Hopkins - "Judah Folkman, Anti-Angiogenesis, Metabolism, and the Curing of Cancer" (26 January 2011)

Salk Institute - "Judah Folkman, Anti-Angiogenesis, Metabolism, and the Curing of Cancer" (22 February 2011)

Sanger Centre, Hinxton, England - "Curing Incurable Cancer" (8 March 2011)

Clare College, Cambridge, UK - "Rules For Doing Science" (11 March 2011)

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey - "How Jim Watson and Francis Crick Discovered the Double Helix" (18 April 2011)

University of Louisville - "Curing Incurable Cancer" (5 May 2011)

Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI - "Toward Curing Incurable Cancer" (19 May 2011)

Sarah Lawrence College (6 June 2011)

John Mendelsohn's Festschrift, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX  - "Curing Incurable Cancers" (21 June 2011)

ISREC Symposium, Luasanne, Switzerland - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancer" (10 September 2011)

The Union Club, NYC - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancers" (4 October 2011)

McGill University, Montreal, Canada - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancers" (12 October 2011)

University of Oxford - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancer" (Draft) (25 October 2011)

Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK - "Finding the Double Helix at the Cavendish" (27 October 2011)

Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK - "Finding the Double Helix at the Cavendish" (28 October 2011)

C.W. Post, Long Island University - "Finding the Double Helix" (17 November 2011)

Stanford University Cancer Center - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancer" (6 December 2011)

Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL - "Curing 'Incurable' Cancers" (20 January 2012)

Whitehead Institute, MIT - "Driven By Ideas" (24 January 2012)

Yale School of Medicine - "Driven By Ideas" (20 March 2012)

Paris Lecture (Peter Moore)

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