| Authorised form of name | Katz; Sir; Bernard (1911 - 2003) |
| Other forms of name | Bernhard |
| Dates | 1911 - 2003 |
| Place of birth | Leipzig |
| Date of birth | 26/03/1911 |
| Date of death | 20/04/2003 |
| Occupation | Biophysicist |
| Activity | Education:
Albert Gymnasium, Leipzig; Medicine at University of Leipzig, MD (1934); left Germany in 1935; found a place at University College London under A V Hill FRS, PhD (1938)
Career:
Beir Memorial Research Fellow and then Carnegie Fellowship Research Fellow, Sydney Hospital under Sir John Eccles (1939-1942); naturalised (1941); served in the Royal Australian Airforce, developing radar in New Guinea during WW2 (1942-1945); returned to A V Hill's department, University College, London (1946) as assistant director of Biophysics Research Unit also worked in Cambridge and at Marine Laboratory, Plymouth with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley; reader in physiology, University College, London (1950-1951); Professor of Biophysics and head of newly created Department of Biophysics, University College, London (1952-1978); Emeritus professor and honorary research fellow, Department of Biophysics, University College, London (1978)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1970
Honours:
Kt 1969 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1952 |
| Age at election | 40 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1963-1965, 1968-1976; VP 1964-1965, 1968-1976; Sec 1968-1976
Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1967
Lectures:
Croonian 1961 |
| Relationships | Married (1945) Marguerite Penly (d 1999) |
| OtherInfo | Papers deposited in Special Collections, University College London - NCUACS catalogue 170/1/09 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 185-202 by Bert Sakmann ForMemFRS
The Times (28 April 2003); The Guardian (24 April 2003); Daily Telegraph (24 April 2003)
References:
Annette C Dolphin ' A short history of voltage-gated calcium channelks' in BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006, pp S56-S62 |
| Code | NA4468 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002486 | Katz, Sir Bernard | 1950 |
| GLB/65/57 | Bernard Katz | September 1960 - November 1966 |
| GLB/65/84/10 | Brown to Bernard Katz, Department of Biophysics, University College London | 13 March 1961 |
| PB/9/1/101/6 | Royal Society correspondence | 1968 |
| GLB/65/80/57 | Brown to B Katz, Department of Biophysics, University College London | 31 January 1964 |
| GLB/64/3/24 | Brown to Sir Bernard Katz, Department of Biophysics, University College, London | 5 May 1970 |
| GLB/65/22/61 | Bernard Katz, Department of Biophysics, University of London to Brown | 18 April 1969 |
| GLB/65/84/9 | Bernard Katz, Department of Biophysics, University College London to Brown | 10 March 1961 |
| PB/1/21 | Photocopies of letters of biographical interest. The originals are held by Lady Blackett. Some other photcopies have been distributed to the appropriate folders (see A.11, A.14, A.17, A.24, A.34) | |
| PB/1/33/3/4 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| CMB/281/26 | Notes on a paper passed for publication in Philosophical Transactions | 22 June 1960 |
| CMB/278/77 | List of papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 28 November 1956 |
| IM/GA/WS/4251 | Katz, Sir Bernard | 1952 |
| IM/001236 | Eccles, Sir John Carew | 1941 |
| IM/004460 | Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan | 11 June 1973 |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| RR/69/188 | Referee's report by Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'Excitation of the nerve-muscle system in Crustacea' by Bernhard Katz and Stephen William Kuffler | 1945 |
| RR/71/163 | Referee's report by Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'The electrical properties of the muscle fibre membrane' by Bernard Katz | [1948] |
| RR/69/190 | Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Excitation of the nerve-muscle system in Crustacea' by Bernhard Katz and Stephen William Kuffler to Archibald Vivian Hill | 12 February 1946 |
| RR/69/189 | Letter from Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, on a paper 'Excitation of the nerve-muscle system in Crustacea' by Bernhard Katz and Stephen William Kuffler to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 26 January 1946 |
| EC/1952/11 | Katz, Sir Bernard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/004462 | Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan | 11 June 1973 |
| IM/004459 | Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan | 11 June 1973 |
| IM/004461 | Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan | 11 June 1973 |
| GLB/65/22/60 | Brown to Sir Bernard Katz, Secretary, The Royal Society | 1 April 1969 |
| IM/002487 | Katz, Sir Bernard | 1970 |
| RR/71/164 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electrical properties of the muscle fibre membrane' by Bernard Katz | [1948] |
| RR/80/10 | Referee's report by Bernard Katz, on a paper 'Fatigue and adaptation of the cupular mechanism of the human horizontal semicircular canal: an experimental investigation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood | 13 April 1953 |
| RR/80/9 | Letter from Bernard Katz, on a paper 'Fatigue and adaptation of the cupular mechanism of the human horizontal semicircular canal: an experimental investigation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and J D Hood, to D C Martin | 14 April 1953 |
| RR/80/41 | Referee's report by Bernard Katz, on a paper 'The ionic fluxes in frog muscle' by Richard Darwin Keynes | 6 October 1953 |
| RR/80/43 | Referee's report by Bernard Katz, on a paper 'The energy requirement for sodium extrusion from a frog muscle' by Richard Darwin Keynes and G W Marshall | 6 October 1953 |