Francis Crick
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~ English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
Francis Beaumont
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~ English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)
Francis Drake
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~ English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Francis Ferdinand
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~ archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
Francis Bacon
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~ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)