Meselson, Matthew

Meselson, Matthew, 1971, Preface to Chemical Mutagens Principles and Methods for Their Detection, vol, 1, edited by Alexander Hollaender, ix-xii. New York Plenum Press. 

Robinson Julian, Guillemin Jeanne, Meselson, Matthew, Yellow Rain The Story Collapses , Foreign Policy, Autumn 1987. 

Seeley, Thomas D., Nowicke Joan W., Meselson, Matthew, Guillemin, Jeanne and Pongthep Akratanakul, Yellow Rain , Scientific American, Vol. 253, September 1985, No. 3. 

Earlier, we did a thonght experiment abont one way that DNA replication could take place. In this mechanism, termed semiconservative, each new strand of DNAis paired with one of the old strands that is, the two strands of the original DNA molecule are now divided between the two molecnles, each of which has one old strand and one new strand. However, there is another possibility, termed conservative. In this case, the two new strands are paired with each other and the two old strands remain paired with each other. Matthew Meselson and W. F. Stahl provided compelling evidence that DNA replication is semiconservative. Here is how the experiment was done. ... 

Watson and Crick proposed the hypothesis of semiconservative replication soon after publication of their 1953 paper on the structure of DNA, and the hypothesis was proved by ingeniously designed experiments carried out by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in... 

Matthew Meselson, The Yemen, in Stephen Rose (ed.), Chemical and Biological Warfare, George G. Harrap Co. Ltd, London (1968), p. 101. 

Historical accounts of military conflicts since the First World War lead us to believe that the use of chemical weapons was non-existent for legal or ethical reasons, or for fear of retaliation. Matthew Meselson, a noted biochemist, stated, There have been only two instances of verified poison gas warfare since 1925. .. in Ethiopia and Yemen. 5 However, a preponderance of evidence exists to indicate that there have been numerous instances of chemical warfare use in military conflicts since 1918. In 1919, in India, stocks of phosgene and mustard gas were sent out from Britain for use on the frontier, and the Royal Air Force (RAF) is alleged to have used gas bombs against the Afghans in 1920. By 1925 the French and Spanish were employing poison gas in Morocco, and it had become clear that chemical warfare had found a new role, as a tool by which major powers could police rebellious territories. 

At the instigation of Matthew Meselson, the Genetics Study Section of the Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, sponsored a small conference at the Jackson Laboratory on September 14, 1966. A report of the conference77 contained four recommendations ... 

Brickley, Peg. 2002, Matthew Meselson Scientist and world statesman. Scientist 16 (www,the-scientist,com/yr2002/mar/features 020318.html). 

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl carried out a critical test of this... 

Matthew Meselson and Fanklin Stahl demonstrated in 1958 that DNA replication (see here) occurred by a semi-conservative mechanism (see here) in which a parental duplex yields two daughter duplexes. Each daughter duplex contains one strand from the original parental duplex and one newly synthesized strand, made by copying the parental strand. 

In 1958, Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl determined which mechanism was actually used (Figure... 

Matthew S. Meselson, Ph.D., is Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Dr. Meselson is a member of the NAS Committee on International Security and Arms Control and the Working Group on Biological Weapons Control. He served on the NAE Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies and the Advisory Panel on the Chemical Research, Development and Engineering Center. Dr. Meselson is a member of both lOM and NAS. 

MATTHEW S. MESELSON, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts... 

Julian Perry Robinson, Seth Cams and Professor Matthew Meselson were equally reassuring. Perry Robinson asserted that elements of the media and the Pentagon had overestimated the significance of Iraq s chemical stockpile. He maintained that its primary value was psychological, that the casualty effects of nerve gas would be blunted by its volatility in hot desert conditions, and that the Iraqi stockpile was far too small to be employed effectively over the potential size of battlefield. He also suspected that Iraq s air power - the most potent means of delivery -would not last long in a battle with coalition air forces, and that the SCUD missiles would prove too inaccurate to attack air bases systematically. Meselson affirmed that the Iraqi chemical attacks were never any more than marginally effective against forces with anti-chemical protective... 

In subsequent Congressional testimony Professor Deutch was even more emphatic the evidence is quite overwhelming, he argued, about their capability and their intent to use CW in a NATO war . Professor Matthew Meselson, in reviewing the Defense Science Board s report, questioned this fundamental assumption. Although he agreed that We know a considerable amount about Soviet antichemical protective posture. It is pervasive and well exercised. This,... 

Matthew Meselson No, I never have. Pauling Well, it smells much worse than hydrogen sulfide.. .. Now, hydrogen telluride smells as much worse than hydrogen selenide as hydrogen selenide does compared to hydrogen sulfide. .. some chemists were not careful when working with tellurium compounds, and they acquired a condition known as tellurium breath. As a result, they have become isolated from society. Some even committed suicide. 

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