| Authorised form of name | Macdonald; David Keith Chalmers (1920 - 1963) |
| Dates | 1920 - 1963 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 24/07/1920 |
| Date of death | 28/07/1963 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/03/1960 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Source | Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 207-220, plate, by K Mendelssohn |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/60283637 |
| Code | NA685 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/72/185 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Experiments on the superconductive transition' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn | 1949 |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |
| RR/71/109 | Letter from Philip Burton Moon, to David Christie Martin, regarding two papers 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by R Fürth and 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald | 30 April 1948 |
| EC/1960/17 | Macdonald, David Keith Chalmers: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/73/27 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Resistivity of pure metals at low temperatures. I. The alkali metals' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and K Mendelssohn | 1950 |
| RR/73/82 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Size effect variation of the electrical conductivity of metals' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and Kathleen Sarginson | 29 April 1950 |
| RR/73/67 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Resistivity of pure metals at low temperatures. II. The alkaline earth metals' by David Keith Chalmers MacDonald, Kurt Mendelssohn and Franz Eugen Simon | 1950 |
| RR/75/150 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and electrical conductivity of sodium at low temperatures' by R Berman & David Keith Chalmers MacDonald | 16 June 1951 |
| RR/79/205 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermoelectricity at low temperatures. II. The alkali metal group' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and W. B. Pearson | 27 August 1953 |
| RR/79/218 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'A new semi-automatic apparatus for measurement of specific heats and the specific heat of sodium between 55'K and 315'K' by T M Dauphinee, David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and H Preston-Thomas | 28 August 1953 |
| RR/75/248 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and electrical conductivity of copper at low temperatures' by R Berman and David Keith Chalmers MacDonald | 3 October 1951 |
| RR/79/83 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermoelectricity at low temperatures. I. The 'ideal' metals; Na, K, Cu' by David Keith Chalmers McDonald and W B Pearson | 5 May 1953 |