Archibald Hill

Archibald Hill was a British mathematician, physician, politician, and physiologist born on September 26, 1886, in Bristol, United Kingdom . Hill was educated at Blundell's School, Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the University of Cambridge . He is known for his work on mechanical work in muscles, muscle contraction model, the founding of biophysics, and the Hill equation in biochemistry . Hill's academic disciplines included biophysics and physiology & behavior .

Hill's doctoral advisor was John Newport Langley , and his doctoral students included Bernard Katz and Ralph H. Fowler . He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research .

Archibald Hill, born as Archibald Vivian Hill , had three children: economist Polly Hill , David Keynes Hill , and geophysicist Maurice Hill . He died on June 3, 1977, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire . Hill held British nationality .