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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
Apr 16, 2024 · Maurice Wilkins (born December 15, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand—died October 6, 2004, London, England) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick.
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His education. Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand, on December 15, 1916, to Irish parents. His family moved to England when Wilkins was six years-old and he began a British ...
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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 ...
Maurice H F Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand. Wilkins. King's College London. November 1951. Purified DNA and DNA in cells shown to have helical structure. Wilkins. Kings College London. 18 Oct 1962. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded for determining the structure of DNA.
- Pongaroa, Wairarapa, New Zealand
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 ...
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962, Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004) played an important role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA whilst working at King’s. Maurice was hard at work completing his PhD at the outbreak of World War II. During the war he worked to improve radar technology before changing to focus on isotope separation ...
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