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Two years after the Oct. '62 Cuban Missile Crisis and somewhat the rapprochement in relations between the two superpowers.

And two years after James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in describing the structure of DNA. Who did not win the Nobel was Rosalind Franklin (deceased) and Raymond Gosling.

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Plus, I really like the idea of virtuous competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. So, what if the Order of Lenin kind of became an alternate Nobel?
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