Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand Physicist, Molecular Biologist

Wilkins behind x-ray machine. No date or location given. Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004) was a New Zealand physicist and molecular biologist. He is best known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA. In recognition of this work, he, Francis Crick and James Watson were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." His research contributed to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the development of radar

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