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  1. 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 DNAs molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick. For this work the three scientists were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel.

  2. He is known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA. Wilkins' work on DNA falls into two distinct phases. The first was in 1948–1950, when his initial studies produced the first clear X-ray images of DNA, which he presented at a conference in Naples in 1951 attended by James Watson.

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  4. Maurice Wilkins: Behind the Scenes of DNA | Learn Science at Scitable. The "third man." Although Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with James Watson...

  5. Dec 15, 2016 · Every day, schools and universities around the world are reminded of the two co-discovers of the DNA double helix. But when they both received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, they were joined by a third name, that of Maurice Wilkins. Who was Wilkins, and what did he do to deserve such an honour?

  6. Some of their most crucial clues to DNA's structure came from Rosalind Franklin, a chemist working in the lab of physicist Maurice Wilkins. Franklin was an expert in a powerful technique for determining the structure of molecules, known as X-ray crystallography.

  7. Apr 25, 2023 · At King’s College London, biophysicists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), and led by John Randall, with Maurice Wilkins as his deputy (who would later share the Nobel prize with...

  8. www.nature.com › articles › d41586/019/02554-zThe structure of DNA

    Oct 9, 2019 · However, DNA was the project of Maurice Wilkins at King’s College London. Crick was a friend of Wilkinss, and it wasn’t the done thing for labs to compete over the same molecule....

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