Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl were well acquainted with these three predictions, and they reasoned that if there were a way to distinguish old versus new DNA, it should be possible to test ...

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl's 1957 demonstration of DNA replication is considered "the most beautiful experiment in biology." Their density-shift demonstrations not only have stood the test of ...

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl came to the rescue with the now-celebrated Meselson-Stahl experiment. The basis of the experiment was the nitrogen in DNA.