Record

Authorised form of nameKeilin; David (1887 - 1963)
Dates1887 - 1963
Place of birthMoscow, Russia
Date of birth21 March 1887
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death27/02/1963
Research fieldBiochemistry
Parasitology
ActivityEducation:
MA (Cantab); DSc (Paris)
Career:
University Lecturer in Parasitology, Cambridge
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/05/1928
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1939; Copley Medal 1951
Lectures:
Croonian 1934; Leeuwenhoek 1958
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 3/73; CSAC 118/9/86. Papers deposited in Cambridge University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 183-205, plate, by T Mann
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/50750178
CodeNA6298
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1928/10Keilin, David: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/32/84Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'On cytochrome, a respiratory pigment, common to animals, yeast, and higher plants' by David KeilinMay 1925
RR/38/91Referee's report by Charles James Martin, on a paper 'Cytochrome and respiratory enzymes' by David KeilinDecember 1928
RR/41/139Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'Cytochrome and intracellular oxidase' by David KeilinMay 1930
RR/54/7Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'Unicase, amino acid oxidase and xanthine oxidase' by David Keilin and E F HartreeNovember 1935
RR/41/127Referee's report by Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, on a paper 'The porphyrin of component c of cytochrome and its relationship to other porphyrins' by Robert Hill and David KeilinSeptember 1930
RR/43/12Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The absorption spectrum of the component c of cytochrome' by Malcolm Dixon, Robert Hill and David KeilinJune 1931
RR/44/100Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Experiments upon respiration in the larvæ of certain parasitic hymenoptera' by William Homon ThorpeNovember 1931
RR/48/68Referee's report by John Scott Haldane, on a paper 'On the combinations of methæmoglobin with H2S' by David Keilin[June 1933]
RR/45/3Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The oxidation of haemoglobin to methaemoglobin by oxygen' by J Brooks[July 1931]
RR/58/34Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'Some properties of catalese haematin' by David Keilin and E F HartreeSeptember 1936
RR/49/147Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The oxidation-reduction potentials of cytochrome C' by David Ezra Green[November 1933]
RR/48/104Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Certain pathological effects of ultra-violet radiation on mosquito larvae and pupae' by Malcolm E MacGregor[June 1932]
RR/53/23Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Experimental studies on the transmission of gapeworm (Syngamus trachea) by earthworms' by Phyllis A Clapham[January 1934]
RR/54/36Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Studies in peroxidase action I —The oxidation of aniline' by Philip Jocelyn George Mann and Bernard Charles SaundersJuly 1935
RR/58/35Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'On the haematin compound of peroxidase' by David Keilin and T MannNovember 1936
RR/49/121Second referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'The hœmatin content of horseradish peroxidase' by K A C Elliott and David Keilin[October 1933]
RR/55/95Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Iron in the sea and in marine plankton' by Leslie Hugh Norman CooperJuly 1935
RR/67/364Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'On the hardening of the cuticle of insects' by M G M PryorNovember 1939
RR/56/15Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The digestive enzymes of the Onychophora (Peripatopsis spp.)' by Norman G Heatley[November 1935]
RR/54/8Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'Coupled oxidation of alcohol' by David Keilin and E F HartreeNovember 1935
RR/65/150Referee's report by Robert Robison, on a paper 'Polyphenol oxidase purification, nature and properties' by David Keilin and T Mann30 January 1938
RR/58/18Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The oxygen dissociation curve of haemoglobin in dilute solution' by Robert Hill and H P Wolvekamp May 1936
RR/58/33Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'The action of sodium azide on cellular respiration and on some catalytic oxidation reactions' by David KeilinSeptember 1936
RR/64/83Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'Cytochrome oxidase' by David Keilin and E F Hartree[January 1938]
RR/64/82Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'On the mechanism of the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase' by David Keilin and E F Hartree[November 1937]
RR/70/105Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The haemoglobin of Daphnia' by Harold Munro Fox1947
RR/67/184Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The electrical polarization of frog skin by direct currents' by O Gatty17 September 1940
RR/67/336Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'On the bicoecidae: a family of colourless flagellates' by L E R Picken10 September 1940
RR/71/91Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The haemoglobins of Ascaris lumbricoides' by H E Davenport[1948]
RR/72/100Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Fluctuations in the haemoglobin content of Daphnia' by Elisabeth I B Dresel, Harold Munro Fox and Sheila M Hardcastle4 February 1949
RR/67/156Letter from David Keilin, on a paper 'A study of the physical and chemical properties of the insect cuticle' by Gottfried Fraenkel and K M Rudall1 March 1940
RR/71/93Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Ascaris haemoglobin as an indicator of the oxygen produced by isolated chloroplasts' by H E Davenport[1948]
RR/69/18Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The waterproofing process in eggs of Rhodnius prolixus Stähl' by James William Longman Beament20 March 1946
RR/68/272Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Intracellular symbiosis and vitamin requirements of two insects, Lasioderma serricorne and Sitodrepa panicea' by M Blewett and G Fraenkel23 December 1943
RR/69/89Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'A study of an insect cuticle: the formation of the puparium of Sarcophaga falculata Pand. (Diptera)' by Ralph Dennell1945
RR/68/411Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The fate of haemoglobin in Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera) and other blood-sucking arthropods' by Vincent Brian Wigglesworth[1943]
RR/72/115Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'On chlorocruorin and haemoglobin' by Harold Munro Fox4 February 1949
RR/71/97Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Weismann’s ring and the control of tyrosinase activity in the larva of Calliphora erythrocephala' by Ralph Dennell[1948]
RR/68/449Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Siderocytes in mammalian blood' by R A M Case[1944]
RR/71/243Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The filamentous bacteria Sphaerotilus, Leptothrix, Cladothrix, and their relation to iron and manganese' by E G Pringsheim1948
RR/71/92Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The haemoglobins of Nippostrongylus muris (Yokagawa) and Strongylus spp' by H E Davenport[1948]
NLB/68/217Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, FRS29 May 1925
NLB/68/33Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [David] Keilin; 175 Hills Road, Cambridge1 May 1925
NLB/68/148Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS20 May 1925
RR/64/81Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Preparation of pure cytochrome c from heart muscle and some of its properties' by David Keilin and E F Hartree[February 1937]
CMB/281/18Papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1959
RR/51/24Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'On the cytological action of methylene blue' by Reginald James Ludford[January 1935]
RR/55/113Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'The action of cyanide and other respiratory inhibitors on xanthine oxidase' by Malcolm Dixon and David KeilinNovember 1935
RR/67/260Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'Succinic dehydrogenase-cytochrome system of cells intracellular respiratory system catalysing aerobic oxidation of succinic acid' by David Keilin and E F Hartree1940
RR/67/261Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'Cytochrome and cytochrome oxidase' by David Keilin and E F HartreeMarch 1939
RR/67/155Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'A study of the physical and chemical properties of the insect cuticle' by Gottfried Fraenkel and K M RudallFebruary 1940
CMB/281/44Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1962
MS/916Lecture notes by Gordon Elliott Fogg1938-1946
RR/53/148Referee's report by John Mellanby, on a paper 'The combination between methæmoglobin and peroxides : hydrogen peroxide and ethyl hydroperoxide' by David Keilin and E F Hartree[October 1934]
RR/65/223Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'A reinvestigation of turacin, the copper porphyrin pigment of certain birds belonging to the musophagidae' by Claude RimingtonNovember 1938
RR/68/214Letter from David Keilin, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callan27 June 1942
RR/65/172Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'Haemocuprein and hepatocuprein, copper-protein compounds of blood and liver in mammals' by T Mann and David KeilinSeptember 1938
RR/34/30Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'A comparative study of turacin and haematin and its bearing on cytochrome' by David Keilin[April 1926]
RR/48/23Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Estimation of haematin iron and the oxidation-reduction equivalent of cytochrome c' by Robert Hill and David Keilin[September 1933]
RR/49/120Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'The hœmatin content of horseradish peroxidase' by K A C Elliott and David Keilin[August 1933]
RR/63/137Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The nature and permeability of chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of homarus vulgaris' by Charles Maurice Yonge17 April 1937
RR/68/215Second letter from David Keilin, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The effects of cold and colchicine on mitosis in the newt' by Horace Newton Barber and Harold Garnet Callan21 July 1942
RR/69/254Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'On iron flagellates' by E G Pringsheim31 January 1946
RR/71/193Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Metabolic changes which form the basis of a microbiological assay of nicotinic acid' by H McIlwain26 June 1948
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