Maurice Wilkins
1916 – 2004 · New Zealand · Biology, Physics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962
Shared the DNA structure Nobel.
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- Francis Crick
1916 – 2004 · Biology
King's College diffraction data reached Cambridge through Wilkins.
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