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 ...

Franklin Stahl, together with Matthew Meselson, proved DNA’s semiconservative replication in “the most beautiful experiment” ...

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.