Archibald Hill
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Archibald Hill was an English physiologist and biophysicist who lived from 1886 to 1977 and made important contributions to understanding how muscles work and energy is used in living organisms. His research helped establish fundamental principles in biophysics that remain important to modern science and medicine.
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Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.
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1886 births1977 deaths20th-century British physicistsAcademics of the Victoria University of ManchesterAcademics of University College LondonAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish Army personnel of World War IBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesBritish operations researchersCambridgeshire Regiment officersEnglish biophysicists