Maurice Wilkins
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Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand–born British physicist and molecular biologist whose X-ray diffraction work on DNA was central to uncovering its double-helix structure, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Wilkins canonical | 23 |
| Maurice H. F. Wilkins | 1 |
| Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins | 1 |
| Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T625238 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Wilkins Context triple: [Francis Crick, coDiscovererWith, Maurice Wilkins]
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Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical diffraction images of DNA were essential to revealing its double-helix structure.
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James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Wilkins Target entity description: Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand–born British physicist and molecular biologist whose X-ray diffraction work on DNA was central to uncovering its double-helix structure, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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A.
Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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B.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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C.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical diffraction images of DNA were essential to revealing its double-helix structure.
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D.
James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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E.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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Subject: Maurice Wilkins Description of subject: Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand–born British physicist and molecular biologist whose X-ray diffraction work on DNA was central to uncovering its double-helix structure, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Referenced by (26)
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linked to: Maurice Wilkins
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 for DNA structure
linked to: Maurice Wilkins