Archibald Hill

Physicist, Academic

1886 – 1977

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Who was Archibald Hill?

A. V. Hill, christened Archibald Vivian, CH OBE FRS, was an English 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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Born
Sep 26, 1886
Bristol
Also known as
  • Archibald Vivian Hill
  • A. V. Hill
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Children
Nationality
  • England
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Cambridge
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
Employment
  • University of Cambridge
  • University College London
Lived in
  • England
  • Bristol
Died
Jun 3, 1977
Cambridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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