Abstract
From the time that Richard Keynes became a research student in 1946, until well after he retired in 1986, a main aim of his work was to get a better understanding of the machinery in nerve cells that was responsible for the changes in the fluxes of sodium and potassium ions that Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley had shown give rise to ‘action potentials’—the transient ‘all-or-nothing’ alterations in transmembrane voltage that are the sole constituent of messages transmitted along nerve fibres. In the later part of his life he also contributed significantly to our knowledge of Charles Darwin, his own great-grandfather.
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