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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 interest in microscopes and ...
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962. From Radar Research to Biophysics Like Ernst Rutherford, Maurice Wilkins came from New Zealand. He was born in 1916 from Anglo-Irish parents in the South Island mountain town of Pongoroa, near Wellington.
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"
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 Desember 1916 – 5 Oktober 2004) adalah fisikawan Selandia Baru-Britania Raya yang bekerja di proyek bom atom di Universitas California selama PD II. Wilkins kemudian beralih ke studi tentang DNA dan menggaji Rosalind Elsie Franklin sebagai asisten.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.
Oct 5, 2004 · Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin worked to determine the structure of the DNA molecule in the early 1950s at King's College in London. While they did not succeed in mapping the structure, their results–not least of all Franklin's x-ray diffraction images–were important in Francis Crick's and James Watson's eventual unlocking of the mystery–a long spiral with twin threads.
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"
