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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
Apr 16, 2024 · Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick.
Jul 28, 2022 · At King’s College London, Rosalind Franklin obtained images of DNA using X-ray crystallography, an idea first broached by Maurice Wilkins. Franklin’s images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to create their famous two-strand, or double-helix, model.
Oct 5, 2011 · 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"
Although Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with James Watson and Francis Crick, his name is not as commonly known as one of the discoverers of the structure...
Dec 15, 2016 · Maurice Wilkins is the third man in the DNA double helix discovery. He is also a Nobel laureate and a controversial colleague of the famous Rosalin Franklin.
Oct 5, 2004 · The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962. Born: 15 December 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand. Died: 5 October 2004, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom.
Oct 5, 2004 · Profile: Maurice Wilkins - the British biophysicist who showed the 1st symetrical patterns of DNA that led to discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA and campaigned for social responsibility in science.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, which helped solve one of the most important of all biological riddles.
Maurice Wilkins initiated the experimental research into DNA that culminated in Watson and Crick's discovery of its structure in 1953. Wilkins crystallized DNA in a form suitable for quantitative X-ray diffraction work and obtained the best quality X-ray images seen at that time.
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