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Archibald Vivian Hill, CH, OBE, FRS (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), known as A. V. Hill, was an English 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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Birth date	September 26, 1886
Birth place	Bristol
Date of death	June 03, 1977
Place of death	Cambridge
Education	University of Cambridge
Known for	Biophysics Work (physics) Muscle Hill equation (biochemistry) Hill's muscle model

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