Foreword / Matt Ridley --
James D. Watson's Life and Work: A Timeline --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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.