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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Francis Harry Compton Crick James Dewey Watson Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Francis Harry Compton Crick James Dewey Watson Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom USA United Kingdom and New Zealand
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom		 Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA		 London University
London, United Kingdom
b. 1916
d. 2004		 b. 1928 b. 1916
(in Pongaroa, New Zealand)
d. 2004
 
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