Science on the 15th of December 1916 in history

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15 Dec 1916 Maurice Wilkins	science	birth Maurice Wilkins Maurice Wilkins (died 2004), New Zealand-born English molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953 using X-ray diffraction, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0

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