Maurice Wilkins, 88, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in discovering the double helix structure of DNA has been overshadowed by more-celebrated colleagues for the past half-century, died Oct. 5 in ...

Maurice Wilkins, who played a critical role in discovering the structure of DNA but whose contributions were long overshadowed by James Watson and Francis Crick, died Tuesday at a London hospital.

Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa, New Zealand, on December 15, 1916, to Irish parents. His family moved to England when Wilkins was six years-old and he began a British education, ...

Maurice Wilkins, the molecular biologist who died on Tuesday aged 87, was the third and least well-known of the three scientists who in 1962 won the Nobel Prize for medicine for determining the ...

DNA pioneer Professor Maurice Wilkins has died. Nobel Laureate Wilkins, 87, played an important role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that carries our "life code".

Her colleague Maurice Wilkins was independently pursuing DNA’s structure, and she had grown so miserable there, largely because of their rivalry, that she had found a position at another university.

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday (October 5), Kings College London announced ...

British scientists and science commentators have paid tribute to the DNA pioneer Maurice Wilkins, who died on Tuesday aged 87. Professor Wilkins, who called himself "the third man of the double helix" ...

In 1968 James Watson published The Double Helix, his highly personalized and controversial account of the events. It ...

Franklin, an expert in X-ray imaging who died aged 37 in 1958, was studying DNA at King’s College in London, along with a scientist named Maurice Wilkins, while Watson and Crick were working on ...

A Rocky Mount man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Friday for shooting at police officers. Antonio Maurice Wilkins Sr. pleaded guilty to the charge stemming from a shooting incident ...

Her colleague Maurice Wilkins was independently pursuing DNA’s structure, and she had grown so miserable there, largely because of their rivalry, that she had found a position at another university.