The island partly surrounds Wilkins Sound, which lies to its west.

Wilkins and this collaborator, or possible collaborator, Rosalind Franklin, came up and sort of laughed at our model.

In 1867 Barry's son Edward Middleton Barry proposed to replace the Wilkins building with a massive classical building with four domes.

Halaby's maternal grandfather was John Thomas Wilkins, who served in the 7th Tennessee Cavalry during the Civil War.

Ornately decorated in comparison with the rooms by Wilkins, it nonetheless worsened the cramped conditions inside the building as it was built over the original entrance hall.

Building on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they had discovered DNA s double helix structure, providing the first glimpse into how organisms inherit and store biological information.

In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick, building on the work of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, suggested that the structure of DNA was a double helix.

LONDON Fifty one years ago, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of DNA s structure a breakthrough that heralded the age of the gene.

Though it compensated for the underwhelming architecture of the Wilkins building, Barry's new wing was disliked by Gallery staff, who considered its monumental aspect to be in conflict with its function as exhibition space.

James Watson and Francis Crick determined the structure of DNA in 1953, using the X ray crystallography work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins that indicated DNA had a helical structure (i.e., shaped like a corkscrew).