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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...
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 7, 2004 · Maurice H.F. Wilkins, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA by Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C....
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 9, 2019 · However, DNA was the project of Maurice Wilkins at King’s College London. Crick was a friend of Wilkins’s, and it wasn’t the done thing for labs to compete over the same molecule. Moreover, the...
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.
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...
