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Maurice Wilkins was born to Irish parents. At the time of his birth his father, Edgar Wilkins, was a medical doctor working for the School Medical Service and his mother, Eveline Whittack, was a school teacher, in an isolated part of New Zealand. The family then moved to Wellington where Wilkins spent his early childhood.
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist. Wilkins was born in New Zealand to a family from Dublin. When he was six, he moved to Birmingham.
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"
Mar 9, 2007 · In this autobiographical book, Maurice Wilkins presents the chronological story of the discovery of DNA structure in 1953. As The Third Man of the Double Helix, Wilkins is well placed to describe the complex scientific background and people involved in the breakthrough that earned him and fellow scientists Francis Crick and James Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (* 15. december 1916, Pongaroa, Nový Zéland – † 5. október 2004, Londýn, Spojené kráľovstvo) bol britský fyzik a nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za fyziológiu alebo medicínu za rok 1962.
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Born 15 December 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand. Died 5 October 2004, London, UK. At the age of 6, Wilkins was brought to England and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He studied physics at St. John's College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1938.
Maurice Wilkins, nearing his first birthday, is seated on his father’s knee in Pongaroa, beside his older sister, Eithne. Although his family—-which had emigrated from Ireland in 1913—left New Zealand permanently in 1923, Maurice Wilkins, now aged 87, retains fond memories of the country of his birth.
