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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 and...
Maurice Wilkins - Biography, Facts and Pictures. Lived 1916 – 2004. 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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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"
Biography. 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.
Nov 15, 1999 · 15 November 1999. Maurice Wilkins. DNA Enabler. Story by Brian Sweeney. A Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine in 1962 for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA – the very essence of life itself – and a New Zealander by birth, Maurice Wilkins is among our greatest achievers.
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.
