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After becoming director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
in 1968, Nobelist James D. Watson and his wife, Elizabeth Watson
decided to live in Osterhout. Watson used the profits he received
from his recently published book The Double Helix to renovate
Osterhout Cottage. In the minutes of the January 1969 Annual
Meeting of the Long Island Biological Association, it states
that James D. Watson and his wife, Elizabeth Watson are "expected
to be in fairly permanent residence [at CSHL] after the middle
of June this year [1969]. They will live in a new house built
on the site of the old Osterhout Cottage, and keep its name.
This house is in the process of being built."
In the April 29, 1968 edition of Scientific Research,
the Watsons' arrival at Cold Spring Harbor is described.
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