| Authorised form of name | Keynes; Richard Darwin (1919 - 2010) |
| Dates | 1919 - 2010 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 14/08/1919 |
| Date of death | 12/06/2010 |
| Activity | Education:
Oundle School
Career:
Research into transmission of nerve impulses; Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University (1973-1986); Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge (1961 - )
Honours:
CBE 1984
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1959 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1965-1968; VP 1965-1968
Lectures:
Croonian 1983 |
| Relationships | Son of Geoffrey and Margaret (Nee Darwin) Keynes; great grandson of Charles Robert Darwin (FRS 1839) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 205-228, plate, by Ian Glynn FRS
References:
Mariana Cook, 'Faces of Science' 2005 pp80-81 Image and account of his work in his own words |
| Code | NA863 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| HWT/28/1/4 | Letter from R D Keynes to Thompson, letters from Blackett to Presidents of Brazilian Academy and Science Council, Royal Society Council paper | February 1968 |
| GLB/2/3 | Brown to Dr R D Keynes, Journal of Physiology, Cambridge | 24 June 1957 |
| PB/9/1/101/6 | Royal Society correspondence | 1968 |
| GLB/2/13 | Brown to R D Keynes, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 30 June 1958 |
| GLB/65/61/37 | Brown to R D Keynes, Director, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge | 8 April 1967 |
| GLB/65/61/35 | R D Keynes, Director, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge to Brown | 15 March 1967 |
| HWT/28/1/1 | Correspondence with R D Keynes and P C Garnham | July - November 1967 |
| HWT/29/2/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visits and exchanges to Mongolia | 1967 |
| IM/002526 | Keynes, Richard Darwin | February 2002 |
| IM/002154 | Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd and Keynes, Richard Darwin | April 1976 |
| IM/002525 | Keynes, Richard Darwin | circa 1967 |
| GLB/65/61/36 | R D Keynes, Director, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge to Brown | 29 MArch 1967 |
| GLB/2/6 | Dr Richard Keynes, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth to Brown | 14 November 1957 |
| EC/1959/11 | Keynes, Richard Darwin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HWT/20/65 | Correspondence and papers regarding RSEP and EMBO | August - September 1970 |
| 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/80/42 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The ionic fluxes in frog muscle' by Richard Darwin Keynes | 5 November 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 |