Also known as Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Maurice H F Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederic Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand-born physicist and biologist who worked in England. His research contributed to our understanding of the structure of molecules, which is important for understanding how life works at the most basic level.
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) 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. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
Wilkins began investigating nucleic acids in 1948. By 1950, he and his team had produced some of the first high-quality X-ray diffraction images of DNA fibers. He presented this work in 1951 at a conference in Naples, where it significantly influenced James Watson, prompting Watson to pursue DNA structure research with Francis Crick.
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