 Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".The results were based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Wilkins.Crick was an important theoretical molecular biologist and played a crucial role in research related to revealing the helical structure of DNA.