Richard Keynes
| Richard Keynes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Darwin Keynes 14 August 1919 |
| Died | 12 June 2010 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physiology |
| Known for | Editor of the works of Charles Darwin |
Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS[1] (14 August 1919 – 12 June 2010) was a British physiologist. He was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and edited accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle into The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, which won praise from the New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review.[2]
Keynes was the eldest son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret Elizabeth (née Darwin), daughter of George Darwin. He was educated at Oundle School before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1945 he married Anne Pinsent Adrian, daughter of Edgar Adrian and his wife Hester (née Pinsent). They had four sons, Adrian (1946–1974),[3] Randal Keynes (b. 1948), Roger Keynes (b. 1951),[4] and Simon Keynes (born 1952).
[edit] Bibliography
- Keynes, R. (Ed.) (1979). The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521218225.
- Keynes, R.; David J. Aidley (2001). Nerve and Muscle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521805848.
- Bolis, C.; R. D. Keynes, Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell (Ed.s) (1984). Comparative Physiology of Sensory Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521250021.
- Keynes, R. (Ed.) (2000). Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052167350X.
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[edit] References
- ^ Glynn, I. (2011). "Richard Darwin Keynes CBE. 14 August 1919 -- 12 June 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0001.
- ^ "J. Z. Young reiterated the praise in a New York Review of Books critique, calling The Beagle Record 'a truly marvelous book' 'especially valuable for giving a fresh view of the conditions under which the foundations for [evolutionary theory] were laid.' New York Times Book Review critic Raymond A. Sokolov concurred, commending Keyne's 'lavish yet scholarly compilation.' 'The Beagle story is, in short," he wrote, "great literature and seductively informal science.', Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
- ^ The Papers of Richard Keynes
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- British physiologists
- Old Oundelians
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Keynes family
- Darwin–Wedgwood family
- People from London
- Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit recipients
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 1919 births
- 2010 deaths
