David Keilin
David Keilin | |
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 David Keilin in 1931 | |
| Born | 21 March 1887 |
| Died | 27 February 1963 (aged 75) |
| Alma mater | University of Liège |
| Known for | Cytochrome |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Royal Medal (1939) Copley Medal (1951) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology and parasitology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | George Nuttall[citation needed] |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | |
David Keilin FRS[1] (21 March 1887 – 27 February 1963) was a scientist focusing mainly on entomology.[3]
Background and education
He was born in Moscow in 1887 and his family returned to Warsaw early in his youth.[4] He did not attend school until age ten due to ill health and asthma. Only seven years later, in 1904, he enrolled in the University of Liège. He later studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and became a British citizen.
Career
Keilin became research assistant to George Nuttall, first Quick Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge, in 1915, and spent the rest of his career there, succeeding Nuttall as Quick Professor and director of the Molteno Institute in 1931. He retired in 1952.
He made extensive contributions to entomology and parasitology during his career. He published thirty-nine papers between 1914 and 1923 on the reproduction of lice, the life-cycle of the horse bot-fly, the respiratory adaptations in fly larvae, and other subjects.
He is most known for his research and rediscovery of cytochrome[5] in the 1920s (he invented the name). It had been discovered by C. A. MacMunn in 1884, but that discovery had been forgotten or misunderstood.[6]
Awards and honours
Keilin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1926.[1] He won its Royal Medal in 1939 and its Copley Medal in 1951.
References
- ^ a b c Mann, T. (1964). "David Keilin. 1887-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 183–205. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0011.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Keilin.
- ^ Hartree, E. F. (1963). "Obituary Notice: David Keilin (1887-1963)". The Biochemical Journal. 89: 1–5. doi:10.1042/bj0890001. PMC 1202263. PMID 14097361.
- ^ Erling Norrby (6 September 2016). Nobel Prizes and Notable Discoveries. World Scientific. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-981-314-466-8.
- ^ Ferguson, S. J. (2001). "Keilin's Cytochromes: How Bacteria Use Them, Vary Them and Make Them". Biochemical Society Transactions. 29 (6): 629–640. doi:10.1042/bst0290629.
- ^ Hartree, E. F. (1 October 1973). "The discovery of cytochrome". Biochemical Education. 1 (4): 69–71. doi:10.1016/0307-4412(73)90074-5.
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- 1887 births
- 1963 deaths
- 20th-century British biologists
- British parasitologists
- British entomologists
- English Jews
- Polish Jews
- Jewish scientists
- University of Liège alumni
- Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Recipients of the Copley Medal
- Royal Medal winners
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- People from Moscow