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Wilkins

American  
[wil-kinz] / ˈwɪl kɪnz /

noun

  1. Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.

  2. Mary Eleanor. Mary E(leanor Wilkins) Freeman.

  3. Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1916–2004, English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.

  4. Roy, 1901–81, U.S. journalist and civil rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77.

Wilkins British  
/ ˈwɪlkɪnz /

noun

  1. Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator

  2. Maurice Hugh Frederick. 1916–2004, British biochemist, born in New Zealand. With Crick and Watson, he shared the Nobel prize 1962 for his work on the structure of DNA

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Wilkins Scientific  
/ wĭl′kĭnz /

  1. British biophysicist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. He worked with Rosalind Franklin to produce x-ray studies of DNA that helped Francis Crick and James Watson establish its structure as a double helix. For this work Wilkins shared with Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Last November, Patel reportedly used the FBI's plane to fly to Pennsylvania and watch a performance by his girlfriend, country music star Alexis Wilkins.

From BBC

Clare Wilkins, for prosecution, said the 15-year-old was at home looking after his brother and went downstairs to make a cup of tea.

From BBC

Watson shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for the DNA's double helix structure discovery.

From BBC

Immanuel Wilkins’s alto saxophone and Joel Ross’s vibraphone initially function as dual narrators.

From The Wall Street Journal

The two shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with colleague Maurice Wilkins.

From The Wall Street Journal

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