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1916 – 2003Maurice Wilkins (1916-2003)Died 5 October 2003, aged 86Maurice Wilkins was a biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction work at King's College London contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Francis Crick.