David Keilin 3383187 222358444 2008-06-28T22:45:12Z Drahkrub 6040916 wikilink Quick Professor for Biology {{Infobox Scientist |name = David Keilin |box_width = |image =Replace_this_image_male.svg |image_width =150px |caption = |birth_date = [[March 21]] [[1887]] |birth_place = [[Moscow]] |death_date = [[February 27]] [[1963]] |death_place = [[Cambridge]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = [[entomology]] and [[parasitology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[University of Liège]] |doctoral_advisor = [[George Nuttall]] |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[cytochrome]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''David Keilin''' ([[March 21]] [[1887]], [[Moscow]] – [[February 27]] [[1963]], [[Cambridge]]) was an [[entomologist]], among other things. His family returned to [[Warsaw]] early in his youth. 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. He 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]] in the 1920s (he invented the name). It had been discovered by C. A. McMunn in 1884, but that discovery had been forgotten or misunderstood. He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in 1926. He won its [[Royal Medal]] in 1939 and its [[Copley Medal]] in 1951. ==External links== *[http://www.biochemsoctrans.org/bst/029/0629/bst0290629.htm Biochemsoctrans] *[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1202263&pageindex=2 Obit at NIH] {{DEFAULTSORT:Keilin, David}} [[Category:1887 births]] [[Category:1963 deaths]] [[Category:British biologists]] [[Category:Parasitologists]] [[Category:British entomologists]] [[Category:English Jews]] [[Category:Polish Jews]] [[Category:Jewish scientists]] [[Category:University of Liège alumni]] [[Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Recipients of the Copley Medal]] {{entomologist-stub}} [[de:David Keilin]] [[fr:David Keilin]] [[nl:David Keilin]]