Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology"

by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and Frederic L. Holmes

Book Overview

In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300085400
• ISBN13: 9780300085402
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 11.6"