The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

Francis Harry Compton Crick

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Prize share: 1/3

James Dewey Watson

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Prize share: 1/3

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 was awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material."

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