File:Maurice Wilkins monument 'Double Helix' in Pongaroa.jpg
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Memorial dedicated to Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, showing the double-helix structure of DNA; the memorial is located in Pongaroa, New Zealand, the birthplace of Maurice Wilkins. The plaque reads: Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Maurice was born in Pongaroa in 1916, son of our local doctor Edgar Wilkins and his wife Eveline. In 1940 he received his physics doctorate from the University of Birmingham. During World War II he worked on radar and the atom bomb but afterwards became a strong campaigner against nuclear warfare and switched to the new science of biophysics. At King's College, University of London, he and colleague Rosalind Franklin studied the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) using X-ray diffraction techniques. Their discovery of what appeared to be a double helix enabled Francis Crick and James Watson to deduce a structure for the molecule. Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for this work. The citizens of Pongaroa placed this monument here with the assistance from Royal Society of NZ, College of Sciences, Massey University, horizons.mw and others. Unveiled on 17 March 2001 by local historian Bernadine Meech MNZM. |
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