Maurice Wilkins
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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 understand
Maurice Wilkins with one of the cameras he developed specially for X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London
Monument to Maurice Wilkins, Main Street, Pongaroa, New Zealand
A plaque commemorating Maurice Wilkins and his discovery, beneath the monument, Pongaroa, New Zealand
Photo 51
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Photo 51 is a 1952 X-ray based fiber diffraction image of a paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber taken by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling at King's College London, while working i
Maurice Wilkins
…overlapping roles and lack of administrative clarity. During this period, Franklin and graduate student Raymond Gosling captured the high-resolution Photo 51, a diffraction image of B-form DNA. In early 1953, John Randall instructed Gosling to hand it over to Wilkins. Wilkins, in turn, showed it to Watson—without…
Photo 51, showing X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Cartoon explanation of how Photo 51 captured the double helix structure of DNA.