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		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (December 15, 1916 – October 5, 2004) was a New Zealand-born British physicist and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction.
		Wilkins returned to the laboratory expecting that Franklin would be his collaborator and that they would work together on the DNA project that he had started.
		Wilkins got new DNA, but it was not as good as the original sample he had used in 1950 and which Franklin continued to use.
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	Maurice Wilkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (December 15, 1916 – October 5, 2004) was a New Zealand born physicist and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction.
		Wilkins returned to the laboratory expecting that Franklin would be his collaborator and that they would work together on the DNA project that he had started.
		Wilkins and others went on to repeat and extend much of Franklin's work to prove that the double-helical structure was indeed correct, a process that took many years.
	wikipedia.com /wiki/Maurice_Wilkins (1996 words)

	MSN Encarta - Maurice Wilkins
		Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004), British biophysicist and cowinner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
		Wilkins shared the prize with American biochemist James Watson and British biophysicist Francis Crick for their studies on the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic molecule found in all organisms.
		Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand, and moved to England as a child.
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	Telegraph \| News \| Maurice Wilkins
		Maurice Wilkins, the molecular biologist who died on Tuesday aged 87, was the third and least well-known of the three scientists who in 1962 won the Nobel Prize for medicine for determining the structure of DNA, the molecule which carries the genetic code that makes possible the transfer of inherited characteristics in all living things.
		Wilkins gave Watson the lead he was looking for: "Maurice's X-ray diffraction picture of DNA was flicked on the screen near the end of his talk," Watson recalled.
		Maurice Wilkins was appointed CBE in 1963 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959.
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	Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick
		New Zealand-born British molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with Francis Crick and James Watson for the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and of the significance of this structure in the replication and transfer of genetic information.
		Wilkins began his career as a physicist working on luminescence and phosphorescence, radar, and the separation of uranium isotopes, and worked in the USA during World War II on the development of the atomic bomb.
		Wilkins was born in Pongaroa and studied in the UK at Cambridge.
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	Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
		Maurice Wilkins, the British biophysicist who contributed to determining the structure of the nucleic acid DNA, was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand on December 15, 1916.
		Wilkins also studied the position and groupings of pyrimidines and purines in nucleic acids and the tobacco mosaic virus.
		Wilkins was awarded the Albert Lasker Award jointly with Watson and Crick in 1960.
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	Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Shortly thereafter, he discontinued his research in nuclear physics to concentrate on problems in molecular biology, particularly the structure of DNA (see nucleic acid).
		In the early 1950s Wilkins successfully extracted some fibers from a gel of DNA, and began photographing them using X-ray diffraction, but his best sample was passed to another researcher, Rosalind Franklin.
		On the basis of X-ray photographs prepared by her laboratory that appeared to show a helical molecular structure and from other scientific information, F. Crick and J. Watson built a model of the DNA molecule and explained its function.
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	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Maurice Wilkins
		Wilkins went to Naples armed with taut enthusiasm for the prospects of his new type of research and with the best x-ray picture of DNA that he had so far taken.
		Wilkins went on to study the structure of various forms of RNA, a genetic material in its own right as well as an information messenger within cells, and a wide range of genetic problems, such as those of ageing, of genetic diseases and of obesity.
		Maurice Wilkins was born to Irish parents at Pongaroa, a small country town in the south of North Island, New Zealand.
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	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Scientists : Maurice Wilkins : www.nzedge.com
		Maurice Wilkins completed his Ph.D in 1940 under Randall at Birmingham, his thesis subject being the study of the thermal stability of trapped electrons on phosphors, and on the theory of phosphorescence in terms of electron traps.
		Wilkins' decision to move from physics to biophysics was driven by his wartime work into nuclear possibilities.
		Maurice Wilkins talks to The Institute of Science in Society on social responsibility in science in a 1999 address.
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		Maurice Wilkins was already using X-ray crystallography to try to solve the DNA problem at King's College.
		Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand.
		Wilkins believes that having spent his formative years in New Zealand, he was imbued with the exploratory and adventuresome nature of the early settlers - traits that proved useful in his career as a scientists.
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	Maurice Wilkins - Biography
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand, on December 15th, 1916.
		At the age of 6, Wilkins was brought to England and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.
		Wilkins became Assistant Director of the Medical Research Council Unit in 1950 and Deputy Director in 1955.
	www.nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/wilkins-bio.html (623 words)

	Maurice Wilkins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wilkins was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Pongaroa) Pongaroa, north (Click link for more info and facts about Wairarapa) Wairarapa, New Zealand where his father was a medical doctor.
		Wilkins used the improved x-ray images without permission from Franklin, to help (Click link for more info and facts about James D. Watson) James D. Watson and (English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916)) Francis Crick deduce the structure of DNA in 1953.
		Wilkins went on to prove that the (Click link for more info and facts about double-helical) double-helical structure they proposed was indeed correct.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Maurice_Wilkins.htm (455 words)

	Maurice Wilkins - Biocrawler definition:Maurice Wilkins - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (December 15, 1916 – October 5, 2004) was a New Zealand born physicist and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction.
		Wilkins used the improved x-ray images without permission from Franklin, to help James D. Watson and Francis Crick deduce the structure of DNA in 1953.
		Wilkins went on to prove that the double-helical structure they proposed was indeed correct.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Maurice_Wilkins (590 words)

	Maurice Wilkins
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand, on 15 December 1916.
		At the age of 6, Wilkins was brought to England and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.
		Wilkins became Assistant Director of the Medical Research Council Unit in 1950, Deputy Director in 1955 and Director from 1970 unitl 1972.
	www.wellcome.ac.uk /en/fourplus/sci_m_wilkins.html (338 words)

	Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Chemical Achievers: James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Biography (submitted by Mike)
	www.nobelprizes.com /nobel/medicine/1962c.html (153 words)

	RSNZ/Maurice Wilkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wilkins’ research, with support from Rosalind Franklin, led to the discovery in 1953 by American geneticist James Watson and British biophysicist Francis Crick of the structure of DNA - surely one of the truly defining moments of twentieth century science.
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was born in the back blocks of the Wairarapa in 1916, in an isolated community called Pongaroa.
		Wilkins firmly believes the opportunities for exploration and discovery in New Zealand helped his later development as a scientist: "In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally.
	www.rsnz.org /topics/biol/dna50/wilkins.php (2028 words)

	The Scientist :: Maurice Wilkins dies, Oct. 6, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday (October 5), Kings College London announced on Wednesday.
		King's, where Wilkins was still a member of staff, said the eminent researcher died in the hospital surrounded by his family.
		Wilkins was born in 1916 and studied physics at St. John's College, Cambridge.
	www.biomedcentral.com /news/20041006/01 (637 words)

	Maurice Wilkins
		Maurice Wilkins is a British biophysicist best known for his contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
		X-ray diffraction pictures done by Wilkins and his assistant/co-worker Rosalind Franklin on the aligned fibers within DNA were seen by James Watson and Francis Crick who, incorporating what it revealed, were then able to build an accurate, detailed model of the DNA molecule.
		Not surprisingly, Wilkins and others in the research group were brought on board the Manhattan Project and moved all the way to Berkeley, California where they continued their research under the direction of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer.
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	Encyclopedia: Maurice Wilkins
		Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June 1916 â€“; 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co- discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, for which he, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded...
		James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule.
		Jump to: navigation, search Sir John Randall (March 23, 1905 â€“ June 16, 1984) was a British physicist, credited with radical improvement of cavity magnetron, an essential component of the centimetre radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War.
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	ipedia.com: Maurice Wilkins Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a physicist who mainly worked in the field of X-rays.
		Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, north Wairarapa, New Zealand.
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (born December 15, 1916) was a physicist who mainly worked in the field of X-rays.
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	AllRefer.com - Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (Genetics And Genetic Engineering, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Genetics And Genetic Engineering, Biographies
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins 1916–;, British biophysicist, b.
		In the early 1950s Wilkins successfully extracted some fibers from a gel of DNA.
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	Life's Lego: The Structure of DNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		James D. Watson (1928 -) was born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, and received a BS from the University of Chicago in 1947, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1950, both in zoology.
		She and Wilkins were also working on their own analysis of DNA's structure, but were pipped to the post by Watson and Crick.
		Maurice H. Wilkins (1916 -), a British biophysicist, was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand, and traveled to Great Britain at the age of six.
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	Wilkins Family Crest Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The English surname Wilkins is of patronymic origin, derived from the name of the father of the first bearer of this surname.
		Very early records of the surname Wilkins go as far back as the twelfth century, with a Willechin de Laurecost in 1196 (Pipe Rolls, or Sheriffs' Annual Accounts for the Counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham during the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John).
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962, for the discovery of the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
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	Maurice Wilkins
		Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, born December 15, 1916) in Pongaroa[?], north Wairarapa, New Zealand.
		Brought to England at age six, he studied physics at St. John's College, Cambridge, then in 1940 received his Ph.D. in physics at Birmingham University.
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	Amazon.com: The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins: Books: Maurice Wilkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wilkins' aim in writing this book was to tell his life story (that begins before he was born) and, perhaps more importantly, clear up "the tensions, accusations, confusions, and controversies that have attended the telling and retelling of the DNA story."
		Wilkins was involved in one of the watershed scientific events of the twentieth century--the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA.
		Maurice Wilkins was a first-rate scientist who was deeply involved in the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century- the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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