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| 1. | Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator. |
| 2. | Mary Eleanor. Freeman, Mary Eleanor. |
| 3. | Maurice Hugh Frederick, born 1916, English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel prize for medicine 1962. |
| 4. | Roy, 1901–81, U.S. journalist and civil-rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77. |
Wilkins Wil·kins (wĭl'kĭnz), Maurice Hugh Frederick. Born 1916.
British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the determination of the structure of DNA.
| Wilkins (wĭl'kĭnz) Pronunciation Key
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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