Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
|
Picture | |
from | Encarta |  |
Maurice Wilkins |
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
| British biophysicist Maurice Wilkins was a cowinner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. By studying the patterns of X-ray diffraction bouncing off genetic material, Wilkins revealed the double spiral shape of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecular building block of genes. | ||||||
|
||||||
| © The Nobel Foundation | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
| Appears in these articles: | ||||||
|
||||||
| Genetics; Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Advertisement
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© 2008 Microsoft
  |