Word: meselson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award makes freedom something more than anarchy because it gives the layperson an idea of what the professional community's consensus is and thus sets up a goal society should try to attain," Meselson said...
...when Meselson and his colleagues announced their findings, the government refused to accept them, and the Reagan Administration continued to classify the Soviet Union as a suspected producer of biological toxins, the professor said...
...Meselson, whom Biochemistry Department Chair Steven C. Harrison called "one of the most outstanding scientist-statesmen in the last few decades," said ethical concerns also played a role in his work...
...think it is against our standards of accountability to make a charge against a foreign government without checking all the facts first," Meselson said...
...science foundation said in a statement that it had given Meselson the award as part of an effort "to honor scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility." It will be presented at a meeting in February...