# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-wilkins
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:45:13.338Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-wilkins"
name: "Maurice Wilkins"
slug: "maurice-wilkins"
description: "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 understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA."
tagline: "New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist"
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birthDate: "1916-12-15"
deathDate: "2004-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill