Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction.
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Actor
1979 · United States
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Actor
1949 · United States
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1852–1908 · France
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Scientist
1860–1904 · Kingdom of Denmark
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Actor
1981 · United Kingdom
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Actor
1982 · United States
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