Maurice Wilkins
(1916-2004)
New Zealand-born British biophysicist
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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, and to the development of radar. He is best known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA.
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15 December 1916 Pongaroa, Wairarapa, New Zealand
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5 October 2004 (aged 87) Blackheath, London, England
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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