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Maurice Wilkins Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, (1916-2004) in 1962 he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Frandcis Crick and James Watson for his work on the molecular structure of nucleic adds, particularly DNA, using X-ray diffraction.

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Wilkins worked in the USA during World War II on the development of the atomic bomb. After the war, he turned his attention from nuclear physics to biophysics, and studied the genetic effects of ultrasonic waves, nucleic acids, and viruses by using ultraviolet light.

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Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand scientist.

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Date Added: 06 July '12


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