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Wilkins

[ wil-kinz ]

noun

  1. Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.
  2. Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1916–2004, English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
  3. Roy, 1901–81, U.S. journalist and civil rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77.


Wilkins

/ ˈwɪlkɪnz /

noun

  1. WilkinsSir George Hubert18881958MAustralianTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aviator Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
  2. WilkinsMaurice Hugh Frederick19162004MBritishNew ZealandSCIENCE: chemist Maurice Hugh Frederick. 1916–2004, British biochemist, born in New Zealand. With Crick and Watson, he shared the Nobel prize 1962 for his work on the structure of DNA


Wilkins

/ wĭlkĭnz /

  1. British biophysicist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. He worked with Rosalind Franklin to produce x-ray studies of DNA that helped Francis Crick and James Watson establish its structure as a double helix. For this work Wilkins shared with Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.


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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

From Rielle Hunter to YaVaughnie Wilkins, Paula Froelich reports on our favorite top ten.

The Benton and Wilkins families have both been visited by this devil, both have suffered the worst tragedies.

Benton entered rehab right after Wilkins died but has said on his Facebook page that he has been living in Mexico City.

Which means that Benton, while still not a suspect, is not entirely off the hook in the Wilkins investigation.

Of course not,” said Wilkins, “proverbial philosophy asserts and requires that doctors should disagree.

Again Wilkins shouted at the top of his voice, and waved his arms more frantically than before.

Wilkins got such a start that he tripped over one of the thwarts in trying to take aim, and nearly upset the boat.

There was a general laugh at this, for it was well known that Wilkins was the worst shot of the party.

A few hours later, Wilkins found Vyrtl and a small retinue resting beside a pool at the edge of the forest.

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