Archibald Vivian Hill

Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 in Bristol - 3 June 1977 in Cambridge) was a British physiologist and mathematician.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was later Professor between 1910 and 1916), as well as at King's College between 1916 and 1925. In 1923 he succeeded Ernest Starling to the Brackenbury Professorship of Physiology at the University College, London, a post he held until his retirement in 1951. He continued to do active research until 1966.

From 1926 he was a professor of the Royal Society, and from 1935 its secretary. He was a member of the executive committee of the National Physical Laboratory. During World War II he was part of a government scientific advisory commission. From 1935 he was working with Patrick Blackett and Sir Henry Tizard on a committee that led to the birth of radar.

He collected part of his research in the book Living Machinery (1927).

He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research work on the thermodynamics of muscles, a prize shared with Otto Fritz Meyerhof.