Famous People with Name Matthew

Matthew Stanley Meselson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Stanley Meselson: an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant. He is married to the medical anthropologist and biological weapons writer Jeanne Guillemin.In 1957 with Franklin Stahl he showed that DNA replicates semi-conservatively. The Meselson-Stahl experiment used the Escherichia coli grown in the presence of the nitrogen isotope nitrogen-15, which was then switched to be grown with normal nitrogen, nitrogen-14. When they extracted the DNA using density centrifugation they found three types of DNA, one containing nitrogen-15, one containing nitrogen-14, and a hybrid containing both isotopes.

Matthew Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Barney: an American contemporary artist and the partner of Björk.The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. The films had very high budgets by experimental art film standards, and featured such varied celebrities as Norman Mailer, Ursula Andress, and Richard Serra. Stylistically, his work is comparable to the large-scale, mythical films of Alexandro Jodorowsky.In 2006, he released Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration with his partner Björk, who plays the female of the two central roles in the film, and contributed the music for the soundtrack.

Matthew B. Koss            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew B. Koss: a widely published solid state physicist.From 1990 to 2000 he worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Lead Scientist for the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE), a basic microgravity research project on dendritic solidification that conducted Space Shuttle flight experiments on STS-62, -75, and -87.In June of 2003, Koss created a controversy by authoring an Op Ed article in the New York Times claiming that scientists bore partial responsibility for the space shuttle Columbia disaster. He argued that most micro-gravity scientific experiments did not require manned space missions, but were used to sell the space program.[1] The article drew widespread attention, and resulted in congressional hearings at which Koss appeared.

Matthew Russell Rolston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Russell Rolston: is an American fashon photographer and music video director, known for videos in Pop and R&B genres.Matthew Rolston was raised in Los Angeles and developed his photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena. Rolston’s still photography has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone.

Matthew Bunker Ridgway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Bunker Ridgway: was a United States Army General. He held several major commands and was most famous for resurrecting the United Nations (U.N.) war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning around the war in favor of the UN side, with American military historian Victor Davis Hanson remarking that he "turned around an entire theater... amid media gloom and doom".

William Diller Matthew            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Diller Matthew: was an American zoologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils.Matthew was curator of the American Museum of Natural History from the mid-1890s to 1927.

Alexander Small Matthew            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Small Matthew: was a Scottish-born insurance company manager and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver Centre from 1953 to 1966 as a Social Credit member.