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Bookmark or Share- Maurice Wilkins - WikipediaMaurice 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.
- Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Maurice WilkinsAt 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.
- The structure of DNAHowever, 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...
- Maurice Wilkins - King's College LondonAwarded 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.
- Maurice Wilkins | DNA structure, X-ray crystallography, Nobel Prize ...Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick.
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