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What was Maurice Wilkins' birth name?

  • Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

  • Frederick Maurice Wilkins

  • Hugh Maurice Wilkins

  • Wilkins Maurice Frederick

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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916 -- 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and crystallographer. He was a pioneer in the field of X-ray crystallography of biological macromolecules, and was a co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA.
The Life and Legacy of Maurice Wilkins: A Biophysicist Extraordinaire

The Life and Legacy of Maurice Wilkins: A Biophysicist Extraordinaire

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