Search results
Watson and Crick brought together data from a number of researchers (including Franklin, Wilkins, Chargaff, and others) to assemble their celebrated model of the 3D structure of DNA. In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 was awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Dec 15, 2016 · Maurice Wilkins, best known as the third man of DNA. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) had an uncomfortable role. He was the third man in the shadows, something that is reflected in the title –chosen by the publisher, not by him– of his autobiography The Third Man of the Double ...
Jan 23, 2003 · In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Notably absent from the podium was Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray ...
Oct 20, 2004 · Maurice Wilkins was born in New Zealand into an Anglo-Irish family of progressive Unitarian views. The family returned to England when he was six. He showed an early interest in microscopes and ...
Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, 60km east of Pahiatua in the northern Wairarapa, on 15 December, 1916. At the age of six, he moved with his family to England and was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He studied physics at St John's College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1938.
Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Crick. Wilkins was made a Companion of the British Empire in 1962 and won other awards and prizes for his work. He collected sculptures and was fond of gardening. DNA was first crystallized in the late 70's — remember, the 1953 X-ray data were from DNA fibers.
