Maurice Wilkins
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Born on 15th of December 1916
Died on 5th of October 2004

Born 1916 - Died 2004 New Zealand - British physicist and Nobel Prize winner.


Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. Researched uranium isotope separation in California. Awarded Nobel Prize in 1962 for physiology or medicine for work on DNA fibres.

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