# Maurice Wilkins > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Biophysics / Molecular Biology **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Maurice Wilkins was a biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction work on DNA contributed to determining its structure. ## Nexus Context He belongs to the experimental network that made the double helix possible and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Watson and Crick. ## Evidence Boundary His contribution should be described alongside, not in place of, Franklin’s independent experimental and analytical work. ## Relationships [[wiki/Rosalind Franklin|Rosalind Franklin]], [[wiki/X-ray Diffraction|X-ray Diffraction]], [[wiki/Double Helix|Double Helix]], [[wiki/Molecular Biology|Molecular Biology]] ## Sources / Provenance - Wilkins, Stokes and Wilson, _Nature_ 171 (1953); Nobel Prize record.