Series VIII: Memorabilia and Ephemera, 1946 - 2011
- The MEMORABILIA AND EPHEMERA series consists of personal memorabilia, photographs, ephemera, material related to Gilbert’s Nobel Prize, and various awards and honors collected by Gilbert from 1946-2008. The series includes his grades from Sidwell Friends School, material related the Science Clubs of America Talent Search, letters announcing scholarship awards and his professorship appointments at Harvard University, material related to travel (including notes on a trip to China, 1980), and three books documenting Gilbert’s art exhibitions (2007-2011). Photographs found in the series include portraits commissioned by Harvard (1960s-1970s), Biogen meetings (1977-1982), and a series of scientific photographs obtained by a young Gilbert from the Franklin Institute (1947). Also included are two scrapbooks, one related to the Nobel Prize (1981) and the other assembled for his 60th Birthday Symposium at Harvard University (1992). Material related to his Nobel Prize in Chemistry include congratulatory letters, ephemera (booklets, invitations, programs, etc.), and his Nobel Prize medal (1980). Finally, the series also includes numerous awards, honorary degrees, and framed certificates awarded to Gilbert throughout his life. These include his diploma from Sidwell Friends School (1949), the 1979 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, and the 1991 Entrepreneur of the Year trophy, awarded to Gilbert for his work at Biogen.
Sidwell Friends School: Coursework (1 of 3), c. 1948
Sidwell Friends School: Coursework (2 of 3), c. 1948
Sidwell Friends School: Coursework (3 of 3), c. 1948
Sidwell Friends School: English 12-B, 1948 - 1949
Signed Letter to Senator Trent Lott, Senate Majority Leader, 1997
Sketch for review article on radiation effects, c.1949
Slides (1 binder and loose sheets), 1980s-1990s
Slides - Diagram titled "Lung Cancer Profile," images of building in Sao Paolo and Rome International Symposium October 21, 1987, c. 1960-1980
Stanford Notes, Parts II and III
- Stanford Notes, Parts II and III. Recombinant DNA. (Abstract)
Stanford Notes, Parts IV and V
- Stanford Notes, Parts IV and V. Recombinant DNA.
Struther Arnott, DNA articles and Maurice Wilkins memoir, 2007
Sub-Series I: Eighth Day of Creation, Judson, Horace F., 1993 - 2013
Sub-Series I: Structure of N,N'-Dimethylmalonamide, 1953 - 1957
Sub-Series II: Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA, Holmes, Frederick L., 1987 - 1995
Sub-Series III: The Double Helix Controversies surrounding James Watson’s book, 1964 - 2007
Sub-Series III: California Institute of Technology, 1958 - 1960
Sub-Series IV: "DNA Models and Reality," talk and article by Hamilton, 1953 - 1968