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Wilkins
[ wil-kinz ]
noun
- Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.
- Mary Eleanor. Mary E(leanor Wilkins) Freeman.
- Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1916–2004, English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- Roy, 1901–81, U.S. journalist and civil rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77.
Wilkins
/ ˈɪɪԳ /
noun
- WilkinsSir George Hubert18881958MAustralianTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aviator Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
- WilkinsMaurice Hugh Frederick19162004MBritishNew ZealandSCIENCE: chemist 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
Wilkins
- 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.
Example Sentences
JSerra doubled its lead when Michigan commit Jake Tatch broke free along the left sideline, crossed to Finn Wilkins, and the freshman headed it in from seven yards out with 10:38 left.
Wilkins, who advises BurnBot and other wildfire prevention startups, believes the vehicles could have slowed the spread of the L.A. fires if they had been deployed.
On Tuesday, the court was played a recorded phone call in which Nikita Burns allegedly told an acquaintance that she had killed Mr Wilkins.
His 80,000-word account of the experience was found in an online auction won by amateur social-historian David Wilkins, who has now published it under the title Blighty or Bust.
Motoring lawyer Jonathan Wilkins says the difference in tolerance levels between Wales and England can "cause real confusion".
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