Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 7,478 times.
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Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and…
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science · New Zealand-born British biophysicist (1916–2004) · biophysicist · physician · physicist · crystallographer · researcher · author · also Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Maurice H F Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederic Wilkins, Wilkins
Born 15 December 1916 · Died 5 October 2004 · Q184659
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2018 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 5,524 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 7,096 times.
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2010· 1 entry
The files, released in August 2010, indicate surveillance of Wilkins ended by 1953. "After the war I wondered what I would do, as I was very disgusted with the dropping of two bombs on civilian centres in Japan," he told Britain's Encounter radio program in 1999.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Protein Identification and Analysis Tools on the ExPASy Server” in The Proteomics Protocols Handbook — cited 6,253 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Died 2004-10-05.
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2002· 1 entry
Was renamed the Maurice Wilkins Centre in 2006
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2000· 2 entries
King's College London opened the Franklin-Wilkins Building in honour of Dr
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King's College London named one of its science buildings the Franklin-Wilkins Building to honor their contributions; of note, Wilkins had insisted that Franklin's name be put first
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962).
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Shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Crick for the discovery of the structure of DNA
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1960).
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Was presented with the American Public Health Association's Albert Lasker Award, and in 1962 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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1958· 1 entry
And was therefore ineligible, Wilkins acknowledged her work in his writings and interviews
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1955· 1 entry
And succeeded Randall as director of the unit from 1970 to 1972
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1953· 1 entry
By Francis Crick and James Watson while Watson lived here at Clare
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1952· 1 entry
Wilkins began a series of experiments on sepia sperm which were very encouraging
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1951· 2 entries
At a conference in Naples, where it significantly influenced James Watson, prompting Watson to pursue DNA structure research with Francis Crick
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Rosalind Franklin joined King’s College and was assigned to the same DNA project, though without a clear delineation of leadership
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1950· 2 entries
Shown at a meeting in Naples a year later, that sparked James Watson's interest in DNA causing him to write "suddenly I was excited about chemistry
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Randall wrote to Franklin to inform her that rather than work on protein, she should take advantage of Wilkins's preliminary work and that she should do X-ray studies of DNA fibers made from Signer's samples of DNA
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1946· 1 entry
Randall was appointed Wheatstone Professor of Physics, in charge of the entire Physics department at King's College, London, with the funding to set up a Biophysics Unit
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1945· 2 entries
Appointed Wilkins as Assistant Lecturer in his department at the University of St Andrews
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Published four papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on phosphorescence and electron traps
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-12-15.
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