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Helical structure of crystalline deoxypentose nucleic acid.

WILKINS, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916 – 2004) Wilkins

STOKES, Alexander Rawson (1919 – 2003) Wikipedia

WILSON, Herbert Rees (1929 – 2008) Wikipedia

Nature, 172, 759-62. 1953.

In 1962 Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Crick and Watson "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material."

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Entry Number	#256.4
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/8701
Author Bio Link	Wilkins ↗
External URL	helical-structure-of-crystalline-deoxypentose-nucleic-acid