Wilkins

Wilkins [wil-kinz] Examples noun

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

Examples from the Web for wilkins Contemporary Examples of wilkins

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

James Higdon

January 7, 2015

The Benton and Wilkins families have both been visited by this devil, both have suffered the worst tragedies.

Jamie Reno

August 25, 2012

Benton entered rehab right after Wilkins died but has said on his Facebook page that he has been living in Mexico City.

Jamie Reno

August 25, 2012

Which means that Benton, while still not a suspect, is not entirely off the hook in the Wilkins investigation.

Jamie Reno

August 25, 2012

I did this in an effort to get some much-needed answers for the Wilkins family.

Jamie Reno

August 25, 2012

Historical Examples of wilkins

Mrs. Wilkins, of all the aggravating women I ever came across, you are the worst.

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The name was commonplace, Wilkins, but was prefixed by the more unusual Feodor.

James Huneker

Mr. Wilkins gave a little laugh, for he read the faces of his companions.

James Huneker

Don’t tell me it’s Mrs. Wilkins, without even a pincushion prepared.’

Louisa M. Alcott

Poor Captain Wilkins of the Seaflower and his crew were among the latter.

Walter Runciman

British Dictionary definitions for wilkins Wilkins noun

Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
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 in Medicine Wilkins [wĭl′kĭnz]Maurice Hugh Frederick 1916-2004

British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the determination of the structure of DNA.

wilkins in Science Wilkins [wĭl′kĭnz]Maurice Hugh Frederick 1916-2004 See Note at Rosalind Franklin.

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.