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...could call it a philosophical motivation,” Meselson said. “What is the secret of life? This magical thing that was DNA. And even before the structure of DNA was known, me and other people were fascinated by how other atoms can create life. It was that tingle—trying to understand what made inanimate matter living...
...Meselson went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he performed the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment, and later to Harvard...
...Meselson left his mark on weapons of mass destruction by contributing to President Richard Nixon’s biological weapons policy, an opportunity he came upon through a Harvard connection...
Henry A. Kissinger ’50 had worked in Harvard’s Government Department before becoming Nixon’s Secretary of State, and Meselson said the two had been “very close.” After he became Secretary of State, Kissinger asked Meselson to write several papers on the effects of biological weapons, which led soon after to a 1969 ban that ended the U.S. biological weapons program...
...Meselson and his lab are trying to understand why sex exists by studying small asexual animals called rotifers. “It’s not clear why there have to be males,” he said...