Leonard Hill (physiologist)

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill
Sir L.E. Hill. Credit:Wellcome Library
Born(1866-06-02)2 June 1866
Bruce Castle, Tottenham
Died30 March 1952(1952-03-30) (aged 85)
Corton, Suffolk
NationalityBritish
Alma materHaileybury College, University College, London
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Physiology

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS[1] (2 June 1866, in Bruce Castle, Tottenham – 30 March 1952, in Corton, Suffolk) was a British physiologist.[2][3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900[1] and was knighted in 1930. One of his sons was the epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill. His father was George Birkbeck Hill, the famous scholar and commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson, who at the time of his birth was headmaster of Bruce Castle School.

  1. ^ a b Douglas, C. G. (1953). "Leonard Erskine Hill. 1866-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8 (22): 431–443. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0009. JSTOR 769221. S2CID 37691201.
  2. ^ Hill, A. B.; Hill, B. (1968). "The life of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS (1866–1952)". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 61 (3): 307–316. doi:10.1177/003591576806100350. PMC 1902312. PMID 4868973.
  3. ^ Acott, C. (1999). "JS Haldane, JBS Haldane, L Hill, and A Siebe: A brief resume of their lives". South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal. 29 (3). ISSN 0813-1988. OCLC 16986801. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)