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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

Archives associated with this Fellow

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

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