Another DNA discoverer dies

Posted 7 October 2004 by

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Maurice Wilkins, whose X-ray photographs of DNA were central to Watson and Crick's later elucidation of the structure of DNA, and who shared the Nobel Prize with them, died in London Tuesday.

2 Comments

Dick Thompson · 7 October 2004

SO candid Jim is the last man standing...

John Wilkins · 11 October 2004

And thereby will get to tell the tale. It's always good to outlive your contemporaries - you get a better chance at controlling how you will be remembered...