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Wilkins, Maurice (1916-)
    

New Zealand-British physicist who worked on the atomic bomb Eric Weisstein's World of Physics at the University of California during World War II. Wilkins then turned to the study of DNA Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry and hired Rosalind Franklin as an assistant. They performed X-ray diffraction studies which showed James Watson and Crick's original model to be wrong. They demonstrated that the double helix model later found to be correct was consistent with the data. For this, Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine with Watson and Crick. Rosalind Franklin's work went largely unrecognized.

Crick, Franklin (Rosalind), Kornberg, Watson (James)




References

Franklin, R. and Gosling, R. "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate." Nature 171, 740-741, 1953.

Olby, R. The Path to the Double Helix. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1974.

Portugal, F. H. and Cohen, J. S. A Century of DNA: A History of the Discovery of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.

Sweeny, B. (Ed.). "Top Scientists. Maurice Wilkins: DNA Enabler." http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/wilkins.html.

Watson, J. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1980.



© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein





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