Meselson, Mathew

As the field of molecular genetics grew, the DNA molecule became the focus of many research efforts. Francis Crick and George Gamov developed the sequence hypothesis to explain how DNA makes protein. They stated that the DNA sequence specifies the amino acid sequence of a protein and postulated the central dogma of molecular genetics the flow of genetic information is a one-way road, it always takes the direction from DNA to RNA to protein [16]. In the same year, 1957, Mathew Meselson and Frank Stahl demonstrated the replication mechanism of DNA [17]. In 1958, DNA polymerase became the first enzyme used to make DNA in a test tube. 

South African-born British biochemist Sydney Brenner (1927- ) discovers messenger RNA, in conjunction with Francois Jacob (1920- ) and Mathew S. Meselson (1930- ). 

Robinson and Trapp, Production and Chemistry of Mustard Gas Sutherland, Thiodyglycol R.J. Mathews, Global Survey of Thiodyglycol and Kaplan, Kyriakopoulos, Lundin, Robinson and Trapp, Summary and Conclusions , Scorpion 13, pp.7, 24-5, 47, 126, 132-3 M.S. Meselson, Statement and testimony included in Heatings..,Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat, pp.l32, 199, 205. 

Mathew Meselson, Jeanne Guillemin, Martin Hugh-Jones, Alexander Langmuir, Ilona Popova, Alexis Shelokov, and Olga Yampolskaya, The Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979, Science 266, November 18, 1994, pp. 1206-7. 

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