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Name: Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Birth Date: December 15, 1916
Place of Birth: Pongaroa, New Zealand
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: biophysicist

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Biography of Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1,487 words, approx. 5 pages
Although Maurice Wilkins (born 1916) is best known for his role in discovering the "double helix" structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules--the molecules carrying the genetic information from which all life is formed--he has worked to...
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Biography of Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins is best known for the assistance he provided to molecular biologists James D. Watson and Francis Crick in their quest to uncover the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic blueprint of heredity in humans...
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Biography of Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1,170 words, approx. 4 pages
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins is best known for his work regarding the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Along with American molecular biologist James D. Watson (1924- ) and English molecular biologist Francis Crick (1916- ),...
 


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Frederick Maurice Hugh Wilkins Summary
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1916- New Zealand-born British molecular biologist who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with James Watson and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Wilkins established methods for the preparation of crystalline DNA...
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray...


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Painter Odile Crick dead at 86
7/30/2007: 328 words, approx. 1 pages
Painter Odile Crick, whose most famous drawing was a graceful sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, has died.Crick died July 5 at her home in La Jolla, said her stepson, Michael Crick. She was 86 and had cancer.Crick's illustration of the double helix appeared...
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Today in history - Oct. 18
10/18/2007: 530 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Thursday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2007. There are 74 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 18, 1962, Dr. James D. Watson of the United States and Drs. Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins of Britain were named winners of...
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DNA Wasn't Elementary To Scientist James Watson
8/23/2007: 856 words, approx. 3 pages
James Dewey Watson was in a race to unmask the chemical structure of living matter.But he was falling behind.In 1950, Watson took his doctorate in genetics and headed to England's Cambridge University to study the DNA molecule, of which all living matter is made. His...
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Obituaries in the news
7/30/2007: 1,962 words, approx. 7 pages
Ingmar BergmanSTOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, has died, the president of his foundation said. He was 89.Bergman died Monday at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news agency...
 


 

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