Stokes, Alexander Rawson

Stokes, Alexander Rawson
▪ 2004

      British mathematical physicist (b. June 27, 1919, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Eng.—d. Feb. 5, 2003, Welwyn Garden City, near London, Eng.), demonstrated mathematically that DNA has a helical molecular structure and thus provided the foundation for the 1953 discovery of DNA's double helix shape by Francis Crick and James Watson. After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Stokes in 1947 joined Maurice Wilkins (who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Watson and Crick) at the biophysics laboratory at King's College, London. In 1950 Stokes applied mathematical analysis to the lab's X-ray-diffraction photographs of DNA and theorized that a helical structure would create the distinctive pattern evident in the images. Stokes and Wilkins initially deferred publishing their results, but their paper (coauthored with Herbert Wilson) on experimental evidence for the double helix eventually appeared in the same issue of Nature as Watson and Crick's paper describing their discovery.

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