Maurice Wilkins was born in Pongaroa ... and had already gathered some data about nucleic acid structure when Rosalind Franklin, an expert in X-ray crystallography, joined the unit.

Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to ... found working with her to be a challenge. Among them was Maurice Wilkins, the man she was to work with at King's College.

Rosalind Franklin is often by-passed, overlooked. In his book Double Helix, James Watson dismissively referred to her as “Rosy”. The two men, Francis Crick and James Watson, soared above her: in 1962, ...

James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins each played a key role in the understanding of DNA and genetic illness. The discovery of DNA’s structure was significant in ...

Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise ... Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the ...

When word spread that Watson and Crick had solved the structure, Chargaff wrote to Maurice Wilkins, who worked with Rosalind Franklin at Kings' College, London--and who later received the Nobel Prize, ...