Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

“for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a biophysicist born in 1916. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. At the time of the award he was affiliated with London University in the United Kingdom.

Field

Biology · Molecular Biology

Lifespan

1916–2004