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 Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Cytochrome |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Royal Medal(1939) Copley Medal(1951) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomologyandparasitology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | George Nuttall[citation needed] |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | |
David KeilinFRS[1](21 March 1887 – 27 February 1963) was a British Jewish scientist focusing mainly onentomology.[3]
Background and education[edit]
He was born in Moscow in 1887 and his family returned toWarsawearly in his youth.[4]He did not attend school until age ten due to ill health andasthma.Only seven years later, in 1904, he enrolled in theUniversity of Liège.He later studied atMagdalene College, Cambridge,and became a British citizen.
Career[edit]
Keilin became research assistant toGeorge Nuttall,firstQuick Professor of Biologyat theUniversity of Cambridge,in 1915, and spent the rest of his career there, succeeding Nuttall as Quick Professor and director of theMolteno Institutein 1931. He retired in 1962.
He made extensive contributions toentomologyandparasitologyduring 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 ofcytochrome[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[edit]
Keilin was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Societyin 1926.[1]He won itsRoyal Medalin 1939 and itsCopley Medalin 1951.
Legacy[edit]
The Keilin Memorial Lecture[7]of theBiochemical Societybegan in 1964 in his memory, and recipients and the subject of their talk is selected by a committee reflecting Keilin's interests in bioenergetics, electron transfer and mitochondrial biology. A medal with his profile, a financial award and an opportunity for research publication is also awarded. In 2020, the recipient was the University of Cambridge'sProf Judy Hirst.[8]
References[edit]
- ^abcMann, 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): 1–5.doi:10.1042/bj0890001.PMC1202263.PMID14097361.
- ^Erling Norrby (6 September 2016).Nobel Prizes and Notable Discoveries.World Scientific. pp. 244–.ISBN978-981-314-466-8.
- ^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.
- ^"The Keilin Memorial Lecture".
- ^"Professor Judy Hirst FRS receives Keilin Memorial Lecture Award".Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge.1 April 2019.Retrieved16 August2020.
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- 1887 births
- 1963 deaths
- British parasitologists
- British entomologists
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Jewish scientists
- University of Liège alumni
- Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Recipients of the Copley Medal
- Royal Medal winners
- Quick Professors of Biology
- Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom
- 20th-century British zoologists