Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

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Crick, who died in 2004 at age 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

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As well as all the scientific documents that will go on display there is also plenty of personal material such as the cartoons of Maurice Wilkins.

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It was shown by Maurice Wilkins of King's College to James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, who said "my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race".

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Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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