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Francis Crick, along with James Watson, is famous for discovering what?
- The structure of the atom
- The theory of relativity
- The electron
- The double helix structure of DNA
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Francis Crick and James Watson, using data from Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography work, published their model of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953. This discovery revealed how genetic information is stored and copied, revolutionising biology and medicine.