Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle.”

British physiologist. Hill was born in Bristol on September 26, 1886 at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1907. He obtained a Fellowship at Trinity in 1910, and was appointed Brackenburg Professor of Physiology at Manchester University in 1920. From 1923 to 1925 he was Jodrell Professor at University College, London, and Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society from 1926 to 1951. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918. Hill died on June 3, 1977 at Cambridge.