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Nature Cell Biology 6, 799–800 (1 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/ncb0904-799

Francis Crick (8th June 1916 |[ndash]| 28th July 2004)

Aaron Klug

On 25th April 1953, there appeared three papers in Nature which changed our view of the world. The structure of the DNA double helix, with its complementary base pairing, is one of the greatest discoveries in biology in the 20th Century.