# Maurice Wilkins (@maurice-wilkins)

Maurice Wilkins was a biophysicist and X-ray researcher. At King's College London, Wilkins worked on X-ray studies of DNA that contributed to the evidence used in constructing the double-helix model.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Maurice Wilkins's public record._

## Topics

- [Collaboration and Credit](/@maurice-wilkins/collaboration-and-credit.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@maurice-wilkins/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The 1962 Prize](/@maurice-wilkins/the-1962-prize.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1962/wilkins/facts/
- blog: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/maurice-wilkins
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1962/speedread/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "maurice-wilkins", "question": "…"}`.