Collections
Walter Gilbert Collection
Date: 1946
Collection • Identifier WAG
- The Walter Gilbert Collection documents the scientific career of Nobel Prize winning scientist Walter “Wally” Gilbert. It includes material accrued while a student (Sidwell Friends School, Harvard University, Cambridge University), professor (Harvard University), and as a pioneering entrepreneur in the field of biotechnology (Biogen). The collection includes course notebooks, lecture notes and teaching files, scientific papers, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, and material related to receiving the Nobel Prize.
Janet Mertz Collection
Collection • Identifier JMZ
- The Dr. Janet Mertz Collection is comprised of materials accumulated during her time at the graduate school of Stanford University. A majority of the materials are laboratory notebooks and slides from work in Paul Berg’s lab in the biochemistry department, and the research leading up to and following the creation of the first recombinant DNA. The collection also includes her 1975 thesis and email correspondence with producers Meredith DeSalazar and Lily Garrison for two separate documentaries made in 2019 and 2020.
Peter Lobban Collection
Date: 1968
Identifier PL
- This collection consists of two laboratory notebooks from Peter Lobban when he was a postgraduate student in Department of Biochemistry in the Stanford Medical School.