who was educated at University College London. After World War II his chief interest became biology. At the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge he and James Watson discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953. Crick continued to be a dominant figure in molecular biology, proposing the central dogma and helping to elucidate the genetic code. Crick, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for their work on DNA.