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<p>Telegram to Crick (dated 18 October 1962, in two parts) from Sten Friberg, Rector, Karolinska Institutet, informing Crick of his award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Ink typing in cut strips of white paper backed onto a secondary support of cream paper, with message running to two sheets.</p>

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