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Wilkins

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Noun

1. roy wilkins, wilkins

United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)

2. george hubert wilkins, wilkins

Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)

3. maurice hugh frederick wilkins, maurice wilkins, wilkins

English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wilkins

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noun
1. 
Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
2. 
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

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Wilkins

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1. 
Sir (George) Hubert1888-1958; Austral. polar explorer
2. 
Maurice H(ugh) F(rederick)1916-2004; Eng. biophysicist, born in New Zealand: helped determine the structure of DNA
3. 
Roy1901-81; U.S. civil rights leader

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wilkins

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American civil rights leader. Long associated with the NAACP, he asserted that racial equality should be achieved through the democratic process.
New Zealand-born British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his x-ray crystallographic work on DNA, which helped Francis Crick and James D. Watson determine its spiral structure.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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