<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Maurice Wilkins </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Maurice Wilkins with one of the cameras he developed specially for X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916 - 12 - 15) 15 December 1916 Pongaroa, Wairarapa, New Zealand </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> 5 October 2004 (2004 - 10 - 05) (aged 87) Blackheath, London </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> St John's College, Cambridge University of Birmingham </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> X-ray diffraction, DNA </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Fellow of the Royal Society (1959) </Li> <Li> Lasker Award (1960) </Li> <Li> Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962) </Li> <Li> EMBO Membership (1964) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Scientific career </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fields </Th> <Td> Physics, Molecular biology </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Institutions </Th> <Td> King's College London The University of Birmingham University of California, Berkeley University of St Andrews </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Maurice Wilkins </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Maurice Wilkins with one of the cameras he developed specially for X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London </Td> </Tr>

Wilkins x-ray diffraction showed the diameter of the dna helix as