David L Yudilevich made seminal contributions in his early career to the field of capillary permeability, studying microvascular permeability in the isolated perfused gastric mucosa, heart and brain. Born in Santiago, he received his MD (1957) from the Universidad de Chile and conducted post-doctoral research for some years in the USA. He returned to Chile but left during the 1973 military coup to work with Laurence Smaje at University College London. The next year, he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London – a post he held until 1985. A strong advocate of research links between Chile and Britain, he published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. In his retirement, he wrote a series of books on Darwin and Humboldt and was awarded Emeritus Professorship of Physiology at King’s College London, Professor Titular in the Faculty of Medicine in the Universidad de Chile and Honorary Membership of the Sociedad Chilena de Ciencas Fisiologicas.

PDF Obituary 1