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.

Short Biography:

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.

Why is Maurice Wilkins famous?

Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand scientist.

Maurice Wilkins Lists

	1916 births
	2004 deaths
	Academics of King's College London
	Fellows of King's College London
	Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
	Alumni of the University of Birmingham
	Biophysicists
	Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
	English physicists
	Fellows of the Royal Society
	Manhattan Project people
	Molecular biologists
	Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
	British physicists
	Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
	British Nobel laureates
	Old Edwardians (Birmingham)
	Radar pioneers
	University of California, Berkeley faculty
	New Zealand immigrants to the United Kingdom

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Tags: medicine, dna, biophysics, ultrasonic

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Category: Scientists  - ( Scientists Archive)

Date Added: 06 July '12

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