Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1916-12-15 in Pongaroa, New Zealand

Gender: male

Field: New Zealand-born British biophysicist

Biography

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins 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 known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

Awarded on: 1962-10-18

"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"

Affiliations:

  • London UniversityLondon, United Kingdom