Inspiring science: Jim Watson and the age of DNA

Foreword / Matt Ridley

James D. Watson's Life and Work: A Timeline

Section I. Origins

Introduction: Student Days

Phage Days in Indiana / Renato Dulbecco

Quiz Kids / Gunther S. Stent

Some Early Recollections of Jim Watson / Seymour Benzer

Reprint: The Properties of X-ray-inactivated Bacteriophage. I. Inactivation by Direct Effect / James Dewey Watson

Section II. Cambridge

Introduction: Talking and Thinking

Jim's Cool Reception among the British Geneticists / Avrion Mitchison

Recollections of Jim Watson / Naomi Mitchison

Our Work on Virus Structure / Francis H.C. Crick

One Day in the Cavendish (April 1, 1953) / Gerald Roland Pomerat

Jim and Syd / Sydney Brenner

Letter to Jim, January 14, 2002 / Max F. Perutz

Monday Morning Quarterback / Elof Carlson

"The Night before Crickmas" / Rollin Hotchkiss

Reprint: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid / J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick

Reprint: Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid / J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick

Reprint: The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid / F.H.C. Crick and J.D. Watson

1953 Symposium

Introduction: A Day in June

Memories of the 1953 Symposium / Robert L. Sinsheimer, Julius Marmur, Charles Yanofsky, Louis Siminovitch, Frank Fenner, Roy J. Britten, Howard Green, Theodore T. Puck, Waclaw Szybalski, Joseph S. Gots and Hillary Koprowski

Symposium on "Viruses" / The Long-Islander Article

Letter to Max Delbruck / James D. Watson

Reprint: The Structure of DNA / J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick

Nobel Banquet Speech / James D. Watson

Section III. Career Scientist

Introduction: Caltech, Cambridge, and Harvard

Remembering Delbruck / James D. Watson

Does RNA Form a Double Helix? / Alexander Rich

Flowers and Phage / Joan Steitz

On the Edge: My Time in Jim Watson's Lab / Benno Muller-Hill

When Ribosomes Were King / Alfred Tissieres

It Smells Right / Lionel V. Crawford

Excerpt from Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson

Growing Up Around Jim / Jeffrey H. Miller

Seems Simple, Very Hard to Do / Mark Ptashne

Watson at Harvard (1956-1976) / Paul Doty

Reprint: Structure of Small Viruses / F.H.C. Crick and J.D. Watson

Reprint: Unstable Ribonucleic Acid Revealed by Pulse Labelling of Escherichia coli / F. Gros, H. Hiatt, W. Gilbert, C.G. Kurland, R.W. Risebrough and J.D. Watson

Section IV. Cold Spring Harbor

Introduction: An Emotional Attachment

Cold Spring Harbor 1958-1968: The Years between Demerec and Watson / John Cairns

Life with Jim / Norton D. Zinder

CSHL in the Sixties: A View from the Trenches / Ann Skalka

Reprint: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Director's Report, 1989 / James D. Watson

Jim as a Mentor, 1971-1974 / Phillip A. Sharp

From Development of Yeast Cells to Human Brain Hemispheres / Amar J.S. Klar

Big Shoes to Fill, with the Laces Untied / Bruce Stillman

Just Jim / Michael Wigler

Milestones and Mentoring: How Jim Watson Influenced a Scientific Career / Douglas Hanahan

CSHL in Transition / Raymond F. Gesteland

Cold Spring Harbor and Recombinant DNA / Thomas Maniatis

Reprint: Origin of Concatemeric T7 DNA / J.D. Watson

Jim and the Board: Behind the Scenes / Bayard Clarkson

Vision, Innovation, Breadth, and Strength / David L. Luke III

Portraits: Robertson, Pulling, and Grace / James D. Watson

Morning on the Porch / Jim Eisenman

Architect at the Lab: Some Personal Recollections / William Grover

Section V. Genomes

Introduction: Managing the Genome

Dr. Watson Goes to Washington / Bradie Metheny

Jim Watson and the Human Genome Project / James B. Wyngaarden

Colossus of Codes / Robert Cook-Deegan

Jim and the Japanese Human Genome Project / Kenichi Matsubara

Climbing the Ladder of Life: James D. Watson and the ELSI Years / Nancy Wexler

Section VI. Education

Introduction: Communicating Science

Pied Piper at Harvard / David Botstein

There Is More Yet to Come / Arnold J. Levine

What I Have Learned from Jim / Bruce M. Alberts

On Drawing Molecules / Keith Roberts

Education by the Sea Shore / Jan Witkowski and John Inglis.