Word: meselson
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Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, said yesterday that he and Robert W. Baughman, a graduate student in Chemistry, have discovered traces of the poison, dioxin, in fish and crustaceans caught in South Vietnamese rivers and coastal waters...
Dioxin forms during the manufacture of 2, 4, 5-T, a chemical in the military herbicide arsenal known as "agent orange." "Dioxin is 100 times more poisonous than the most powerful nerve gas," Meselson said...
...most popular of three herbicides used by the United States to defoliate forests and kill crops in Indochina, "agent orange" was used until April 1970, according to Meselson, primarily in South Vietnam and Laos, and once in Cambodia and the Demilitarized Zone...
MATTHEW S. MESELSON, professor of Biology. Meselson's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1969 helped bring about President Nixon's decision that year to end the stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons. Meselson later warned Senate committees that American use of tear gas in Vietnam contributed to the breakdown of taboos against employing such weapons...
...Matthew Meselson, Sc.D., molecular biologist, Harvard professor and opponent of biological warfare. As a founder of modern genetics and social conscience for those who advance scientific knowledge, you have demonstrated the power of sustained effort to assure that the science of life does not cause death or destruction anywhere on the globe...