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Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, 53, has been embroiled in bitter controversy ever since he suggested last spring that the "yellow rain" in Southeast Asia, which the State Department claims is biochemical weaponry used by the Soviet Union, is actually bee droppings. Last week, as the beleaguered Meselson sat dictating letters requesting $700 from the Harvard administration to help fund his work, the phone rang. An official of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago informed him that he had been chosen to receive a fiveyear, no-strings $256,000 award. Meselson covered the mouthpiece and gleefully exclaimed...
...Meselson has studied and writted extensively on chemical and biological weapons, the use of biological toxins in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, and has led efforts to establish international agreements limiting biological warfare...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Mathew S. Meselson has won international renown for his groundbreaking work in molecular biology and his expertise in biological warfare issues. Most famous is Maselson's pioneering work which has advanced the manipulation of DNA for genetic engineering...
...dropped the widely publicized "boe" bombshell. Meselson and his colleagues argued that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the United States' government as evidence of "yellow rain" and chemical warfare by the Soviet Union may be nothing more than bee excrement...
...year-old Meselson received his Ph B. from the University of Chicago, and his Ph. D. from the California Institute of Technology. He joined the Harvard faculty...