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James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Watson and Crick, along with Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. The prize was for their discovery regarding the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its importance in the information transfer in living material.

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