Wilkins

American  

[wil-kinz] / ˈwɪl kɪnz /

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.

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Wilkins British  

/ ˈwɪlkɪnz /

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 Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

Watson shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for the DNA's double helix structure discovery.

From BBC

Immanuel Wilkins’s alto saxophone and Joel Ross’s vibraphone initially function as dual narrators.

From The Wall Street Journal

The two shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with colleague Maurice Wilkins.

From The Wall Street Journal

Patel defended his use of the plane, which he used to have “date nights” with his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins.

From Salon

Wilkins in 1884 – just 16 years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment – endorses “the principle that no one can become a citizen of a nation without its consent.”

From Salon