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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Full Name of the recipient | Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1962 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Francis Harry Compton Crick (33.3%) James Dewey Watson (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | London University, London, United Kingdom |
Place of Birth | Pongaroa, New Zealand NZL |
Date of Birth | 15 December 1916 |
Age at the time of Award | 45 years |
Place of Death | London, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Death | 5 October 2004 |