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Archibald Vivian Hill, 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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science · British physiologist (1886–1977) · politician · mathematician · physician · physiologist · biophysicist · also Archibald Hill, A. V. Hill, Sir Archibald Hill, Hill
Born 26 September 1886 · Died 3 June 1977 · Q155375
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
Published “Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans” in Nature — cited 9,065 times.
Published “Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials” in The Lancet — cited 7,216 times.
Published “Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Monotherapy in Untreated Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,994 times.
Published “The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic” in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology — cited 8,638 times.
Published “SEVEN-YEAR<i>WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE</i>(<i>WMAP</i>) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 6,925 times.
Published “Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene” in Nature Materials — cited 7,472 times.
Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,937 times.
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,995 times.
Died 1977-06-03.
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Awarded Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture (1969).
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Retired to Cambridge where he gradually lost the use of his legs
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Won Cothenius Medal (1966).
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Became head of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and Secretary General of the International Council of Scientific Unions
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Published “The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate” in Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section A — cited 10,598 times.
His advocacy was rewarded by the establishment of a Biophysics Department under his leadership
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Won Copley Medal (1948).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1948).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger (1944).
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Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1940–1945).
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Was posted to the British Embassy in Washington to promote war research in the still neutral United States
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1938).
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Served with Patrick Blackett and Sir Henry Tizard on the committee that gave birth to radar
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Became with William Beveridge and Lord Rutherford a founder member and vice-president of the Academic Assistance Council (which in 1936 became the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning)
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Awarded Actonian Prize (1928).
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Won Baly Medal (1927).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1926).
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Won Royal Medal (1926).
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Was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Nerves and Muscles: How We Feel and Move
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Succeeded Ernest Starling as professor of physiology at University College London, a few years later becoming a Royal Society Research professor there, where he remained until retirement in 1951
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922).
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Before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920 in succession to William Stirling
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At the outbreak of the First World War, Hill became the musketry officer of the Cambridgeshire Regiment
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Married Margaret Neville Keynes (1885-1974), daughter of the economist John Neville Keynes, and sister of the economist John Maynard Keynes and the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes
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Hill formulated the Hill equation, which is used to quantify binding of oxygen to haemoglobin, written here as a kinetic equation:
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Studied at University of Cambridge, doctorate (1909).
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What came to be known as the Langmuir equation
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Born 1886-09-26.
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