Who among the following shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 along with Francis Crick and James Watson for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids?
A
Erwin Chargaff
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B
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
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C
Rosalind Franklin
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D
Phoebus Levene
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Solution
The correct option is B Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Francis Crick and James Watson described the structure of DNA helix in a scientific paper in 1953 and nine years later, in 1962, they shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins.
Erwin Chargaff made a quantitative analysis of DNA and proposed Chargaff's rule which states that for double-stranded DNA, a proportion of purines always an equal proportion of pyrimidines.
Rosalind Franklin discovered the structure of DNA by doing X-ray diffraction.
Phoebus Levene discovered that DNA is made up of four nucleotides, a ribose sugar and a phosphate group.
So, the correct answer is 'Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins'.