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Matthew S. Meselson

AAAS offices held:

• Chair, Herbicide Assessment Commission, 1970

AAAS awards and honors:

• AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award, 1990.

  For chairing the AAAS Herbicide Assessment Commission, influencing the Nixon administration to renounce biological warfare and to unilaterally destroy the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons, and challenging claims by the U.S. government that the Soviets were supporting the use of yellow, rain-like chemical warfare agent in Southeast Asia.