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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) [3] 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.
- X-ray diffraction, DNA
Dec 15, 2016 · 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 Helix. But most of all, it was often his turn to hear that the third Nobel Prize ...
Oct 5, 2004 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins. 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. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries ...
Maurice Wilkins. Max Perutz and the Secret of Life. In 1970, age 51, Wilkins became director of the biophysics laboratory at King’s College following John Randall’s retirement. Wilkins retired and became emeritus professor of biophysics in 1981 at the age of 65. Maurice Wilkins died age 87 in London on October 5, 2004.
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Jul 28, 2022 · These four scientists—Crick, Franklin, Watson, and Wilkins—codiscovered the double-helix structure of DNA, which formed the basis for modern biotechnology. 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 ...
Oct 7, 2004 · Maurice Wilkins, who played a critical role in discovering the structure of DNA but whose contributions were long overshadowed by James Watson and Francis Crick, died Tuesday at a London hospital.
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.
