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Archibald Hill

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Archibald Hill

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Also known as A. V. Hill, Sir Archibald Hill

English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)

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Archibald Hill was an English physiologist and biophysicist who lived from 1886 to 1977 and made important contributions to understanding how muscles work and energy is used in living organisms. His research helped establish fundamental principles in biophysics that remain important to modern science and medicine.

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Born
1886
Works
31

Top works

  • Chemical Wave Transmission in Nerves
  • Two addresses delivered at a celebration of medical progress at the University of Pennsylvania October 10 and 11, 1930
  • The present tendencies and the future compass of physiological science
  • What science stands for
  • Trails and trials in physiology

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1940-07-27

Discography

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5 total works indexed

  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,923x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,562x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,797x

  4. The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate

    · 1952 · cited 10,561x

  5. 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

    · 2018 · cited 9,664x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1922

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

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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