Wilkins Maurice Hugh Frederick
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Wil·kins
(wĭl′kĭnz), Maurice Hugh Frederick 1916-2004. New Zealand-born British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his x-ray crystallographic work on DNA, which helped Francis Crick and James D. Watson determine its spiral structure.
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Wil·kins
(wĭl′kĭnz), Maurice Hugh Frederick Born 1916. British biophysicist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. He worked with Rosalind Franklin to produce x-ray studies of DNA that helped to establish its structure as a double helix.
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