There Daniel takes part in a number of experiments, including the exploration of the diminishing effects of gravity with changes in elevation, the transfusion of blood between dogs and Wilkins ' attempts to create a philosophical language.

Other 17th-century proposals for a ' philosophical ' ( i. e. universal ) language include those by Francis Lodwick, Thomas Urquhart ( possibly parodic ), George Dalgarno ( Ars signorum, 1661 ), and John Wilkins ( An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 1668 ).

Work on philosophical languages was pioneered by Francis Lodwick ( A Common Writing, 1647 ; The Groundwork or Foundation laid ( or So Intended ) for the Framing of a New Perfect Language and a Universal Common Writing, 1652 ), Sir Thomas Urquhart ( Logopandecteision, 1652 ), George Dalgarno ( Ars signorum, 1661 ), and John Wilkins ( An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 1668 ).

About this time he was engaged in a philosophical controversy with Thomas Hobbes, in fact a small part of the debate with John Webster launched by the Vindiciae academiarum he wrote with John Wilkins which also incorporated an attack on William Dell.

In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick made use of information from unpublished X-ray diffraction images of Franklin's ( shown at meetings and freely shared by Wilkins ), including preliminary accounts of Franklin's results / photographs of the X-ray images that were included in a written progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall from late 1952.

During the early 1950s, while Watson and Crick were determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), they made use of unpublished X-ray diffraction images taken by Rosalind Franklin, shown at meetings and shared with them by Maurice Wilkins, and of Franklin's preliminary account of her detailed analysis of the X-ray images included in an unpublished 1952 progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall.

Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...

Wren attended the meetings of scientifically-inclined scholars which were held by Warden John Wilkins ( Cromwell's brother-in-law ) in the college in the 1650s.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

When David Wilkins published the New Testament in Coptic ( Novum Testamentum Aegyptium, vulgo Copticum, 1716 ) he presented a copy to the bishop, who began to study the language at the age of eighty-three.

After his service on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, Wilkins in 1923 began a two-year study for the British Museum of the bird life of Northern Australia.

Wilkins is educated at King Edward's School ( and St John's College, Cambridge ), he receives a PhD for the study of phosphors at the University of Birmingham, where he works on radar display screens and uranium isotope separation before moving to the Manhattan Project.

In the 1950s, James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins were instrumental in solving DNA structure and suggesting its relationship with genetic transfer of information.

He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine " for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material ".

) Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins of King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scientific events as much as the close friendship between Crick and James Watson.

For this and subsequent work they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins.

When it became clear to Wilkins and the supervisors of Watson and Crick that Franklin was going to the new job, and that Linus Pauling was working on the structure of DNA, they were willing to share Franklin's data with Watson and Crick, in the hope that they could find a good model of DNA before Pauling was able.

Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.

The strategic advantages of submarines were set out by Bishop John Wilkins of Chester, England, in Mathematicall Magick in 1648:

In contrast, the Rams were able to reach inside the Tennessee 20-yard line on all 4 of their remaining drives before halftime, but on each one, the Titans defense forced St. Louis to settle for field goal attempts from kicker Jeff Wilkins, who was successful in making 3 of them, but missed one attempt from 34 yards.

Steam turbines were also described by the Italian Giovanni Branca ( 1629 ) and John Wilkins in England ( 1648 ).

The results at the end when comparing Sherman's diary to Wilkins was that " Seventy-five per cent were found to be correct ".

The full results of the experiments were published in 1942 in a book by Sherman and Wilkins titled Thoughts Through Space in the book both Sherman and Wilkins had written that they believed they had demonstrated that it was possible to send and receive thought impressions from the mind of one person to another.

In 1659 Hooke described some elements of a method of heavier-than-air flight to Wilkins, but concluded that human muscles were insufficient to the task.

Wilkins ' work, which clearly demonstrated the lack of a therapeutic effect when 46, XY women were treated with androgens, caused a gradual shift in nomenclature from " testicular feminization " to " androgen resistance ".

Orlando also acquired NBA great Dominique Wilkins, along with brother Gerald, who were past their primes but were both still serviceable NBA players.

Goltz and Wilkins were both graduate students in electrical engineering at the University of Arizona.

In the 1850s a number of wagon roads and trails were constructed through Vilas County including the Ontonogan Mail Trail and a Military Road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan.

Gardens were first created under Warden Wilkins ( 1648 – 59 ) as a series of formal rectangles laid out around a ( then fashionable ) mound which was, in turn, surmounted by a figure of Atlas.

Since the school board later involves Snyder in Mayor Wilkins ' sacrifice to the demon Lurconis, its members are also clearly aware of at least some of the goings-on in Sunnydale.

The influence and ambitions of John Wilkins were an important thread in the historical fiction trilogy The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.

Wilkins and Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden ( 1808 – 09 ), the General Post Office ( 1824 – 29 ) and the British Museum ( 1823 – 48 ), Wilkins University College London ( 1826 – 30 ) and the National Gallery ( 1832 – 38 ).

The policemen bring Trick to the office of Mayor Wilkins, who tells Trick that he needs to control rebellious youth elements during this most important year.

Schrödinger's book was an important influence on Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins who won a Nobel prize in Medicine for the discovery of the DNA double helix.

He named the Mare Orientale ( Eastern Sea ) in 1946, along with H P Wilkins, though German astronomer Julius Heinrich Franz has also been credited with the discovery.

* This episode marks the first reference to Mayor Richard Wilkins though not by name, a character who would go on to be the central antagonist of Season Three.

Along with former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Cliff Stoudt ( inducted 1987 & Jaworski's successor on the football team, though playing for the Cardinals at this point ) and recently-retired St. Louis Rams kicker Jeff Wilkins ( inducted in 2003 ), Jaworski is one of only three former YSU football players to be inducted while still active in the NFL.

Two were sponsored by Detroit News on an unsuccessful attempt by Wilkins to fly across the north pole, though he succeeded the following year.

Big Sugar officially formed in 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson, bassist Terry Wilkins, and drummer Al Cross, though the three musicians had already played together for several years as an informal jam band with members of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, and as a supporting band for Molly Johnson's jazz performances.

A few years before Morris published his landmark paper, Lawson Wilkins had shown through his own experiments that unresponsiveness of the target cell to the action of androgenic hormones was a cause of " male pseudohermaphroditism ".

Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted a grand total of three players who have ever been chosen to play in an All-Star game ( Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, and Al Horford ; Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft ).

Within the next few years the Braddocks, Picketts, Strattons, Branins and Wilkins families moved to the area ( many of whom continue to live in the area today ).

Wilkins is one of the few persons to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

Cases for the authorship of Thomas Heywood or George Wilkins have been made, but have convinced few commentators.

A few notable members include Roy Wilkins, Benjamin Hooks, Vernon Jordan, Dr. Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., Rev.

Cases for the authorship of Thomas Heywood or George Wilkins have been made, but have convinced few commentators.

Since 1995, he has been presenting live cricket from all around the world for ESPN STAR Sports and was part of the ' Few Good Men ' commentary team that included Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, and Alan Wilkins along with Geoff Boycott and Navjot Singh Sidhu, for few seasons, and later, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar.

Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, who was to be sacked in turn at the end of the 2010 – 2011 season, wrote about Wilkins, in his autobiographical book The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius: " Ray is one of those select few, always present, noble in spirit, a real blue-blood, Chelsea flows in his veins ... without him we wouldn't have won a thing.

Mayor Wilkins says a few words before handing the mic over to Mrs. Summers.

After biding his time and working after practice, Wilkins got his shot in late March of his rookie season and came through, scoring a career-high 21 points, including a few game-saving baskets, at Portland on March 24, 2005.