| Authorised form of name | Keen; Sir; Bernard Augustus (1890 - 1981); agriculturist |
| Dates | 1890 - 1981 |
| Date of birth | 05 September 1890 |
| Date of death | 05/08/1981 |
| Activity | Education:
University College, London; DSc
Career:
Director of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, India; ex-Assistant Director, Rothamsted Experimental Station
Honours:
Kt 1952
Memberships:
FInstP; FRMS (President 1938-1939)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/05/1935 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 95/6/83. Papers deposited in University College Library, London
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1982 vol 28 pp 205-223, plate, by Sir Charles Pereira |
| Royal Society code | NA6300 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1935/13 | Keen, Sir Bernard Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WRS/9207 | Keen, Sir Bernard Augustus | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/1222 | Keen, Sir Bernard Augustus | nd |
| MS/886 | Travel Diaries of Sir Bernard Augustus Keen | 1929-1947 |
| RR/61/22 | Referee's report by Bernard Augustus Keen, on a paper 'The size-garding of sand by wind' by Ralph Alger Bagnold | July 1937 |
| NLB/69/718 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Bernard Augustus] Keen, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts. | 8 September 1926 |
| GLB/57/28 | Sir Bernard Keen, Director, East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation, Kikuyu, Kenya to Sir David Brunt, Secretary, The Royal Society | 2 April 1953 |
| RR/20/80 | Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'On the diffraction of light by particles comparable with the wave-length' by Bernard Augustus Keen and Alfred William Porter | October 1913 |
| RR/21/101 | Referee's report by Alfred Daniel Hall, on a paper 'Evaporation of water from soil' by Bernard Augustus Keen | 13 January 1915 |
| RR/30/34 | Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'An automatic and continuous recording balance. (The Odén-Keen balance.)' by John Reginald Horder Coutts, Edward Mortimer Crowther, Bernard Augustus Keen and Sven Odén | [May 1924] |
| RR/57/16 | Referee's report by Bernard Augustus Keen, on a paper 'Studies in thixotropic gelation - I—The mechanism of thixotropic gelation' by J L Russell and Eric Keightley Rideal | [December 1935] |
| RR/57/18 | Referee's report by Bernard Augustus Keen, on a paper 'Studies on thixotropic gelation - II—The coagulation of clay suspensions' by J L Russell | [December 1935] |
| RR/57/86 | Referee's report by Bernard Augustus Keen, on a paper 'Photoelectric measurements of the luminous efficiency of daylight' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole | [May 1936] |