Robert C. Olby Collection
Mss.B.OL1
Robert C. Olby Collection | 1951-1963 | 0.25 lin. feet | Box 1 | |
Brenner, Sydney, 1927-2019.
TLS Cy to Matthew Meselson | 1960 May 7 | 1 item | ||
Regarding work of Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob. Subject(s): Molecular genetics; Cytogenetics; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Jacob, Francois; Monod, Jacques | ||||
Crick, Francis H. C. | 1955-1963 | 14 item(s) | ||
Subject(s): Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc.; Biographical and personal data; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004.
Folder 1 | 1955-1956 | 6 items | ||
Existance of deoxy-uracil in DNA; experiments on Collagen; new structure for polyglycine. | ||||
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004.
Folder 2 | 1957-1960 | 7 items | ||
Polynucleotides; poly A; poly I + poly C; angle of hydroge hydrogen bond; DNA and RNA. | ||||
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004.
Folder 3. TLS Cy to Alex Rich | 1963 April 24 | 1 item | ||
Re: Rich's manuscript for Nature | ||||
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004.
Watson, James D., 1928-.
The Complimentary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid | n.d. | 28 page(s) | ||
Prepared while Watson was at California Institute of Technology. Subject(s): Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc.; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Molecular genetics | ||||
Delbruck, Max | 1953-1955 | 2 item(s) | ||
Subject(s): Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Delbrück, Max, 1906-1981.
Folder 1. TLS Cy to J. D. Watson | 1953 April 14 | 1 item | ||
DNA structure | ||||
Delbrück, Max, 1906-1981.
Folder 2. TLS Cy to Alex and Jane Rich | 1955 November 9 | 1 item | ||
Rundle's RNA structure | ||||
Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958.
ALS Cy to Alex Rich | 1958 March 16 | 1 item | ||
Regarding tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Subject(s): Laboratory techniques, equipment; Biographical and personal data; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Gamow, George | 1955-1962 | 13 item(s) | ||
Subject(s): Publication; Lectures, public speaking; Travel -- Invitations, arrangements; Mazia, Daniel; RNA tie club; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Brenner, Sydney; Crick, Francis H. C.; Research support; Molecular genetics; Biographical and personal data | ||||
Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Folder 1. ALS Cy to Alex Rich | 1955-1956 | 8 items | ||
Discusses his book; trouble with proteins; divorce; research questions; official club circular; hellix vs. solenoid entanglement of chromosomes. | ||||
Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Folder 2. ALS Cy to Alex Rich | 1958-1962 | 5 items | ||
On writing books; son Igor; soliciting opinion on the latest pronouncement by Francis Crick, Barnett, Brenner, and Watts-Tobin concerning "The General Nature of the Genetic Code." | ||||
Herriott, Roger M..
TLS Cy to Alfred D. Hershey | 1951 November 16 | 1 item | ||
Amino acids in the phage but not in the ghosts; centrifugation of the ghosts; his own virus problem. Subject(s): Hershey, Alfred Day; Bacteriophage and viral genetics; Laboratory techniques, equipment; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Molecular genetics | ||||
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day).
TL Cy to Roger M. Herriott | 1951 November 20 | 1 item | ||
Results of the S 35 experiments; addressing Herriott's idea about the nucleic acid and Hershey's own opinion about intracellular phage. Subject(s): Bacteriophage and viral genetics; Herriott, Roger Moss; Molecular genetics | ||||
Luria, S. E. (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991.
Correspondence | 1952-1953 | 2 items | ||
S35 and protein and DNA; Linus Pauling's theory. Subject(s): Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Conferences and symposia; Pauling, Linus; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Matthaei, Heinrich.
Correspondence | 1960, n.d. | 8 items | ||
Materials obtained by Heinrich Matthaei, a coworker with Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg, who won the Nobel prize for the discovery of DNA and collected by Olby for his book, The Path to the Double Helix Subject(s): Nirenberg, Marshall; History of biology, especially genetics; Watson, James D.; Crick, Francis H. C.; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Mendel, Gregor; Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc.; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Meselson, Matthew.
TL Cy to Sydney Brenner and F. Jacob | 1961 February 15 | 1 item | ||
Regarding The Unstable Intermediate manuscript. Subject(s): Molecular genetics; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Editorial matters; Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. -- The Unstable Intermediate; Jacob, Francois; Brenner, Sydney | ||||
Olby, Robert C. (Robert Cecil).
Summary of Events Leading to Solution of DNA Structure | n.d. | 9 page(s) | ||
10-page timeline. Subject(s): Molecular genetics; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc.; History of biology, especially genetics | ||||
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994.
TLS Cy to Dr. James Watson | 1953 March 5 | 1 item | ||
Protein conference and Pauling's new structure for the nucleic acids. Subject(s): Delbruck, Max; Watson, James D.; Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Conferences and symposia; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics | ||||
Rich, Alexander | 1956-1963 | 18 item(s) | ||
Subject(s): Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Molecular genetics; Cytogenetics; Pauling, Linus; Nirenberg, Marshall; Crick, Francis H. C.; Gamow, George; Laboratory techniques, equipment; Conferences and symposia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Invitations; Biographical and personal data; Recommendations -- Warner, Jonathan | ||||
Rich, Alexander.
Folder 1 | 1956-1957 | 8 items | ||
RNA backbone; WC structure for DNA; p32 labelling; measurements on various muscle protein fractions; the prospect of DNA's coding for RNA; collagen model; DNA synthesizing system; creating new polymers; | ||||
Rich, Alexander.
Folder 2. TL Cy to F. H. C. Crick | 1957-1961 | 7 items | ||
System polyinosinic acid plus polycytidylic acid; poly A coordinates; Russian collagen article; Maurice's DNA coordinates; Pauling-Coring models; Nirenberg system; | ||||
Rich, Alexander.
Folder 3. TL Cy to F. H. C. Crick | 1962-1963 | 3 items | ||
Jonathan Warner; polyribosomes; mixed crystals; NMR study of cytidine and deoxycitidine; structure of the guanine-cytosine crystal; finding another complex; in vitro incubation experiments with polyribosomes. | ||||
Watson, James D. | 1953-1955 | 5 item(s) | ||
Subject(s): Biochemistry and organic chemistry; Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc.; Cytogenetics; Molecular genetics; Teaching -- Pauling, Linus | ||||
Watson, James Dewey.
Folder 1 | 1953 March | 2 items | ||
Pauling's seminar. | ||||
Watson, James Dewey.
Folder 2. ALS Cy to Alex Rich | 1955 March 9 | 1 item | ||
RNA central code | ||||
Watson, James Dewey.
Miscellaneous Notes | n.d. | 2 items |