Maurice Wilkins - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1962
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Maurice Wilkins

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1962
for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material
Citizenship
New Zealand New Zealand United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
12/15/1916
place of birth
Pongaroa
date of death
10/5/2004
place of death
Blackheath
Lived
87 years
educated at
  • University of Birmingham
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
  • University of Cambridge
  • St John's College
  • King Edward's School
field of work
  • molecular biology
  • phosphorescence
  • microscopy
  • X-ray crystallography
  • isotope separation
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
occupation
  • physicist
  • researcher
  • biophysicist
  • crystallographer
  • physician
  • author
doctoral student
  • Yehudi K. Levine
employer
  • King's College London
  • University of California, Berkeley
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