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Which New Zealand-born scientist shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis Crick and James Watson for the discovery of DNA's double helix structure?
Answer: Maurice Wilkins — Maurice Wilkins, born in Pongaroa, provided the crucial X-ray crystallography evidence ΓÇö much of it produced by Rosalind Franklin ΓÇö that confirmed the double helix model of DNA.
- A Ernest Rutherford
- B Alan MacDiarmid
- C Maurice Wilkins ✓
- D William Pickering
Maurice Wilkins, born in Pongaroa, provided the crucial X-ray crystallography evidence ΓÇö much of it produced by Rosalind Franklin ΓÇö that confirmed the double helix model of DNA.