Wilkins

[ wil-kinz ]

noun

1. Sir George Hubert, 1888–1958, Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.
2. Mary Eleanor. Mary E(leanor Wilkins) Freeman.
3. Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1916–2004, English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
4. Roy, 1901–81, U.S. journalist and civil rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77.

Wilkins

/ ˈwɪlkɪnz /

noun

1. WilkinsSir George Hubert18881958MAustralianTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aviator Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
2. WilkinsMaurice Hugh Frederick19162004MBritishNew ZealandSCIENCE: chemist 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

Wilkins

/ wĭl′kĭnz /

1. British biophysicist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. He worked with Rosalind Franklin to produce x-ray studies of DNA that helped Francis Crick and James Watson establish its structure as a double helix. For this work Wilkins shared with Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

Example Sentences

His 80,000-word account of the experience was found in an online auction won by amateur social-historian David Wilkins, who has now published it under the title Blighty or Bust.

From BBC

Motoring lawyer Jonathan Wilkins says the difference in tolerance levels between Wales and England can "cause real confusion".

From BBC

Ms Wilkins did not know Jade and was not commenting on her case specifically.

From BBC

Mike Wilkins, an arable farmer in Wiltshire, lost about half his wheat.

From BBC

Laetitia Wilkins and her team from the at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, studies bacterial evolution in a very unique scenario: the Isthmus of Panama.

From Science Daily