Maurice Wilkins
15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist whose X-ray diffraction studies of DNA contributed to the discovery of its double helix structure. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Francis Crick.
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Life events
Maurice Wilkins was born in New Zealand and moved to England as a child.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe earned a degree in physics from St John's College, Cambridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe contributed to wartime research on isotope separation for the atomic bomb.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became a researcher at the biophysics unit at King's College London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis and Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images provided key evidence for the helical structure of DNA.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Crick.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe wrote The Third Man of the Double Helix, reflecting on his role in the DNA discovery.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMaurice Wilkins died at the age of 87.
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