| Authorised form of name | Keller; Andrew (1925 - 1999) |
| Other forms of name | Andreas |
| Dates | 1925 - 1999 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Budapest, Hungary |
| Date of birth | 22/08/1925 |
| Date of death | 08/02/1999 |
| Activity | Education:
University in Budapest
Career:
Left Hungary for England (1948); worked at ICI, Manchester; naturalised British (1955); research on crystallisation of polymers, Bristol University; Reserach Professor, Bristol University (1969); Emeritus Professor upon retirement (1991)
Memberships:
Academia Europaea (1969)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1972 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1994 |
| Relationships | Only son of a Hungarian Jewish family; married Eva; one son, one daughter |
| Source | Sources:
Guardian obituary (13/5/1999)
NCUACS Catalogue 130/3/04. Papers deposited in Special Collections, Arts and Social Sciences Library, University of Bristol
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 293-310, plate, by Alan Windle FRS
References:
'Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1994' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 141-151 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/4484309 |
| Code | NA7883 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002500 | Keller, Andrew | nd |
| IM/002499 | Keller, Andrew | 1994 |
| EC/1972/20 | Keller, Andrew: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/GRS/6204 | Keller, Andrew | nd |
| RR/79/288 | Referee's report by Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn, on a paper 'Crystallization phenomena in polymers. I. Preliminary investigation of the crystallization characteristics of polyethylene terephthalate' by Andrew Keller, G R Lester and L B Morgan | 22 December 1953 |