The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 under Linus Pauling , his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work with Franklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor at Harvard University beginning in 1960. It also includes decades of materials, mainly correspondence, concerning Meselson’s self-described “hobby:” biological and chemical weapons research and political activism for control and disarmament. The collection consists of correspondence, laboratory files, course notebooks, photographs, reprints, X-ray films, and graphs. Many materials are related to X-ray crystallography, DNA replication, and Drosophila sequencing and heat shock proteins.
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Record Group I: Professional Materials, 1940 - 2022
Date: 1940
recordgrp Objects • Identifier 311211
1940
Record Group II: Chemical and Biological Warfare Materials, 1944 - 2020
Date: 1944
recordgrp Objects • Identifier 311224
1944