21 Facts About Archibald Hill

Archibald Hill shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.

In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Archibald Hill became the musketry officer of the Cambridgeshire Regiment.

On site, Archibald Hill immediately proposed a simple two mirror method to determine airplanes' heights.

Archibald Hill sped between their working sites on his beloved motorcycle.

Archibald Hill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Archibald Hill prominently displayed in his laboratory a toy figure of Adolf Hitler with saluting arm upraised, which he explained was in gratitude for all the scientists Germany had expelled, some of whom were now working with him.

Archibald Hill believed that "Laughter is the best detergent for nonsense".

Archibald Hill was biological secretary of the Royal Society; William Henry Bragg was president.

The Royal Society collated a list of scientists and Archibald Hill represented the Society at the Ministry of Labour.

Archibald Hill served as an independent Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1940 to 1945.

Archibald Hill visited India between November 1943 and April 1944 to survey scientific and technological research.

Archibald Hill's suggestions influenced the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology in the following decade.

Archibald Hill was President of the Marine Biological Association from 1955 to 1960.

Archibald Hill died "held in the greatest affection by more than a hundred scientific descendants all over the world".

Archibald Hill made many exacting measurements of the heat released when skeletal muscles contract and relax.

Archibald Hill continually improved his apparatus to make it more sensitive and to reduce the time lag between the heat released by the preparation and its recording by his thermocouple.

Archibald Hill is regarded, along with Hermann Helmholtz, as one of the founders of biophysics.

Archibald Hill returned briefly to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920 in succession to William Stirling.

Archibald Hill introduced the concepts of maximal oxygen uptake and oxygen debt in 1922.

Since then the house had been divided into flats and owned by Highgate School, where Archibald Hill was a Governor from 1929 to 1960.

Archibald Hill's work has resulted in wide-ranging application in sports medicine.