Maurice Wilkins

✶December 15, 1916

†October 5, 2004

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About their life

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins 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. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

New Zealand-born British biophysicist (1916–2004)

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Biography from the article Maurice Wilkins on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.