# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-meselson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:13.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-meselson"
name: "Matthew Meselson"
slug: "matthew-meselson"
description: "Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication. After completing his Ph.D. under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Meselson became a Professor at Harvard University in 1960, where he has remained today as Professor of the Natural Sciences."
tagline: "American geneticist and molecular biologist"
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birthDate: "1930-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump