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2 unusual facts about Archibald Hill


Archibald Hill

Hill returned to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920.

Tim Noakes

Noakes is also known for renewing and elaborating the idea first proposed by the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Archibald Hill that a central governor regulates exercise to protect body homeostasis.


Robert Daniel Lawrence

Charles Best, then professor of physiology in Toronto, was probably the proposer for this honour as he had met and become friendly with Lawrence when doing postgraduate research in London with Sir Henry Dale and A. V. Hill in 1925-28.


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