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Wil⋅kins

[wil-kinz]
–noun
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.
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Wilkins, Roy 1901-1981.  
American civil rights leader. Long associated with the NAACP, he asserted that racial equality should be achieved through the democratic process.
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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.

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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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