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Maurice Wilkins: Life and Achievements

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What was Maurice Wilkins's profession?

Chemist
Mathematician
Physicist (correct)
Biologist

Where did Maurice Wilkins study?

Cambridge and Birmingham (correct)
Birmingham and Oxford
Oxford and London
Oxford and Cambridge

What major project did Maurice Wilkins contribute to during World War II?

The Manhattan Project (correct)
The Hubble Project
The Enigma Project
The Apollo Project

For what did Maurice Wilkins and his colleagues win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

<p>Discovery of the structure of DNA (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the title of Maurice Wilkins's autobiography?

<p>The Third Man of the Double Helix (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Maurice Wilkins

A Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist known for X-ray studies of DNA.

X-ray studies

Use of X-ray imaging to investigate the structure of DNA fibers.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Award shared by Wilkins, Crick, and Watson for DNA structure work in 1962.

Rosalind Franklin

A scientist with whom Wilkins had a complicated partnership in DNA research.

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The Third Man of the Double Helix

Autobiography published by Maurice Wilkins about his life and work.