Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Maurice Wilkins |
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Birthdate | December 15, 1916 |
Birth Place | New Zealand |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Physicist |
Maurice Wilkins is best known as Physicist who has born on December 15, 1916 in New Zealand. Currently, Maurice Wilkins is 108 years, 0 months and 8 days old. Maurice Wilkins will celebrate 109th birthday on Monday, 15th of December 2025. Below the countdown to Maurice Wilkins upcoming birthday.
English physicist and biologist who conducted research that contributed to a better scientific understanding of phenomena such as isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction.
He developed improved radar screens in Birmingham during World War II after studying physics at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1935.
He received the American Public Health Association's Albert Lasker Award in 1960 and was made Commander of the British Empire in 1962.
He was married twice and had five children.
He attended King Edward's School from 1929 to 1935, which was named after King Edward IV.
Maurice Wilkins is 108 years old today.
Maurice Wilkins was born on December 15, 1916 in New Zealand.
Maurice Wilkins zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Maurice Wilkins was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Maurice Wilkins's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet. |
1973 | John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10. |
1973 | The American Psychiatric Association votes 13-0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. |
1978 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan). |
1981 | A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing. |
1989 | Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition of capital punishment is adopted. |
1993 | The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. |
1997 | Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85. |
2000 | The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. |
2001 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean. |
2005 | Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. |
2010 | A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people. |
2013 | The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron. |
2014 | Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning. |
2017 | A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths. |
1988 | The birth of Steven Nzonzi, French footballer |
1989 | The birth of Nichole Bloom, American actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Conor Daly, American race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1992 | The birth of Jesse Lingard, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Alex Telles, Brazilian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Jenifer Brening, German singer |
1996 | The birth of Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Maude Apatow, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Zach Banks, American race car driver |
1997 | The birth of Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress |
1998 | The birth of Chandler Canterbury, American actor |
1999 | The birth of Amber Joseph, Barbadian cyclist |
2000 | The birth of Kayvon Thibodeaux, American football player |
2012 | The death of Owoye Andrew Azazi, Nigerian general (b. 1952) |
2012 | The death of Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian politician, 18th Governor of Kaduna State (b. 1948) |
2012 | The death of Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Dyron Nix, American basketball player (b. 1967) |
2014 | The death of Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosà (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917) |
2016 | The death of Craig Sager, American sports journalist (b. 1951) |
2017 | The death of Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953) |
2018 | The death of Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (b.1945) |
2018 | The death of Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924) |
2020 | The death of Saufatu Sopoanga, Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1952) |
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