Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916– ), British biophysicist. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with biologists James D. Watson of the United States and Francis H.C. Crick of Great Britain. His research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) led to the model of the molecular structure of DNA. Wilkins also worked on the development of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project in World War II.

See also: DNA.