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Archibald Hill

1886 - 1977

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Archibald Hill is the 80th most popular biologist (up from 82nd in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 568th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Biologist.

Archibald hill is most famous for his book the science of life. He was a pioneer in the study of hormones and their effects on the body.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Archibald Hill ranks 80 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, Richard Owen, and Ralph M. Steinman. After him are René Lesson, Werner Arber, Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, and Herman Boerhaave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Archibald Hill ranks 23. Before him are Marc Bloch, Karl Barth, René Guénon, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Theodor Morell, and Gotthard Heinrici. After him are Erich Hoepner, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Hermann Broch, Jan Masaryk, Zhu De, and Karl Polanyi. Among people deceased in 1977, Archibald Hill ranks 23. Before him are Jacques Prévert, Ernst Bloch, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Kurt Schuschnigg, Alexey Stakhanov, and Anaïs Nin. After him are Howard Hawks, Joan Crawford, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Clarice Lispector, Bing Crosby, and Andreas Baader.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Hill ranks 541 out of 8,785. Before him are George Eliot (1819), Charles Lyell (1797), Robert Burns (1759), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Robert Plant (1948), and John Boyd Dunlop (1840). After him are Adele (1988), Peter Brook (1925), Henry Hudson (1570), Edmund Crouchback (1245), Thomas Becket (1119), and Henry Moore (1898).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Archibald Hill ranks 18. Before him are Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), Michael Houghton (1949), and Richard Owen (1804). After him are Philip Sclater (1829), Philip Miller (1691), William John Swainson (1789), James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), and Reginald Innes Pocock (1863).

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