Posted by Timothy Sandefur on October 7, 2004 09:27 AM

Maurice Wilkins, whose X-ray photographs of DNA were central to Watson and Crick's later elucidation of the structure of DNA, and who shared the Nobel Prize with them, died in London Tuesday.

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Posted by Dick Thompson on October 7, 2004 10:22 AM (e) (s)

SO candid Jim is the last man standing…

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Posted by John Wilkins on October 11, 2004 11:56 PM (e) (s)

And thereby will get to tell the tale. It’s always good to outlive your contemporaries - you get a better chance at controlling how you will be remembered…