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Wilkins

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Wil·kins  (wlknz), Sir George Hubert 1888-1958.
Australian explorer and aviator who was the first to explore the Arctic by air (1928).
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick 1916-2004.
British biophysicist. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for advances in the study of DNA.
Wilkins, Roy 1901-1981.
American civil rights leader. Long associated with the NAACP, he asserted that racial equality should be achieved through the democratic process.
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Noun1.Wilkins - United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
Roy Wilkins
2.WilkinsWilkins - Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)
George Hubert Wilkins
3.Wilkins - English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins


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