David Keilin

David Keilin (March 21st 1887, Moscow - February 27th 1963, Cambridge) is a entomologist and British parasitologist .

Its life

Its family turns over to Warsaw shortly after her birth.
Because of health issues it starts its schooling only at age the ten years. Seven years later it joined the Université of Liege then the Magdalene College of Cambridge. Keilin takes British nationality at that time.

Keilin becomes assistant of George Nuttall (1862-1937), first professor of biology to the Université of Cambridge.
Il succeeds Nuttall with its pulpit of biology in 1931.
Il is withdrawn in 1952.

Keilin made many contributions in Entomologie and Parasitologie, in particular through 39 articles pulibés of 1914 with 1923 on the reproduction of the lice, the life cycle of the Gasterophilus intestinalis , the adaptation of the respiratory system of the larvae of Fly S, etc

Keilin is more known for its redécouverte and its research on the Cytochrome S, of which he invents the name. The cytochromes already were discovered by Charles Alexander MacMunn (1852-1911) in 1884, but were forgotten or badly included/understood.

He is elected with the Royal Society in 1926, learned society which decree the royal Médaille to him in 1939 and the Médaille Copley in 1951.

See too

External bonds

  • Biochem. Trans plowshare. (2001) 29, (629-640), S.J. Ferguson
  • Obituary, E.F. Hartree

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