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1916 – 2004Francis Crick (1916-2004)Died 28 July 2004, aged 88Crick co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA with James Watson in 1953, a breakthrough that earned them the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He later worked on the theoretical basis of consciousness.