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- Two Britons and an American were today jointly awarded
- this year's Nobel Prize for medicine for work on heredity.
- The Britons are Dr. Francis Crick, 46, a molecular biologist at
- the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and Dr. Maurice
- Wilkins, 45, deputy director of the Medical Research Council's
- bio-physics research unit at King's College London. The
- American, Dr. James Watson, is Professor of Biology at
- Harvard, and worked at Cambridge, England, in 1951-52.
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- Professor Ulf von Euler, chair of the Caroline Institute's Nobel
- committee, which selects the medicine prize winners, said the
- work of this year's winners was of great importance to the
- whole study of heredity and the reason for the passing on of
- hereditary diseases. It may even be found to provide an
- explanation for the deformities of thalidomide babies, he
- said.
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