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Maurice Wilkins was born in the outback town of Pongaroa, New Zealand, in 1916. His Irish father was a doctor with an interest in medical research, and in 1922 the family moved to Birmingham in the UK where the research possibilities were better.
Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand. His father was a doctor and in order to pursue his interest in preventative medicine, moved the family to England when Wilkins was six. Wilkins believes that having spent his formative years in New Zealand, he was imbued with the exploratory and adventuresome nature of the early settlers - traits that proved useful in his career as a scientists.
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. He then went to Birmingham University, where he became ...
Nov 9, 2004 · Maurice Wilkins, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure, died last month aged 87. Wilkins was still associated with King's College London, where he had worked since 1946.
Maurice H F Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand. Wilkins. King's College London. November 1951. Purified DNA and DNA in cells shown to have helical structure. Wilkins. Kings College London. 18 Oct 1962. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded for determining the structure of DNA.
Oct 23, 2004 · Maurice H F Wilkins. A biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies were used by Francis Crick and James Watson to derive the double helix model of DNA. The three shared the 1962 Nobel prize for medicine. He was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand, on Dec 15, 1916, and died on Oct 5, 2004, in London, UK, aged 87 years.
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. Oxford University Press.
