This article is about the British physicist. For the U.S. internet personality, see Stokes Twins.
Alec Stokes
Born
Alexander Rawson Stokes
(1919-06-27)27 June 1919
Macclesfield, England
Died
5 February 2003(2003-02-05) (aged 83)
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Cambridge
Known for
Molecular structure of DNA
Spouse
Margaret Stokes
Children
2 sons and 1 daughter
Scientific career
Fields
Physics, biophysics
Institutions
Royal Holloway College, London King's College London
Thesis
Imperfect Crystals (1944)
Doctoral advisor
Lawrence Bragg
Other academic advisors
John Randall
Double helix
William Astbury
Oswald Avery
Florence Bell
Lawrence Bragg
Erwin Chargaff
Francis Crick
Michael Creeth
Jerry Donohue
Rosalind Franklin
Raymond Gosling
Frederick Griffith
John Masson Gulland
Denis Jordan
Phoebus Levene
Friedrich Miescher
Fred Neufeld
Sir John Randall
Alec Stokes
James Watson
Maurice Wilkins
Herbert Wilson
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Alexander Rawson Stokes (27 June 1919 – 6 February 2003) was a British physicist at Royal Holloway College, London and later at King's College London.[1][2] He was most recognised as a co-author of the second[3] of the three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953[4] describing the correct molecular structure of DNA. The first was authored by Francis Crick and James Watson,[5] and the third by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling.
In 1993, on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the molecular structure of DNA, a plaque was erected in the Quad (courtyard) of the Strand campus of King's College London, commemorating the contributions of Franklin, Gosling, Stokes, Wilson, and Wilkins to "DNA X-ray diffraction studies".
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^"A photo that changed the world". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
^Wilkins, M. H. F.; Stokes, A. R.; Wilson, H. R. (1953). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids" (PDF). Nature. 171 (4356): 738–740. Bibcode:1953Natur.171..738W. doi:10.1038/171738a0. PMID 13054693. S2CID 4280080.
^"Double Helix: 50 years of DNA". Nature. Nature Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015.
^Watson, J. D.; Crick, F. H. C. (1953). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid" (PDF). Nature. 171 (4356): 737–738. Bibcode:1953Natur.171..737W. doi:10.1038/171737a0. PMID 13054692. S2CID 4253007.
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