The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 under Linus Pauling, his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work with Franklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor at Harvard University beginning in 1960. The collection consists of correspondence, laboratory files, course notebooks, photographs, reprints, X-ray films, and graphs. The date range is from 1948-2019. Many materials are related to X-ray crystallography, DNA replication, and Drosophila sequencing and heat shock proteins.
