Leonard Hill (physiologist)

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill
Born (1866-06-02)2 June 1866
Bruce Castle, Tottenham
Died 30 March 1952(1952-03-30) (aged 85)
Corton, Suffolk
Nationality British
Fields Medicine, Physiology
Alma mater Haileybury College, University College, London

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 head master of Bruce Castle School.

Education

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill attended Haileybury College. He later received his MB from University College, London in 1890.[2] In 1931, he received an honorary LLD from the University of Aberdeen.[2]

Medicine

Hill's work on blood pressure led him to believe "the arterial pressure can be taken in man as rapidly, simply, and accurately as the temperature can be taken with the clinical thermometer".[2] This work developed into the Hill's sign.[2][4] Hill was the second recipient of the T. K. Sidey Medal, set up by the Royal Society of New Zealand as an award for outstanding scientific research.[5][6][7]

Diving medicine

Hill performed research into decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity, and effects of carbon dioxide in diving.[2][3][8]

Hill advocated linear or uniform decompression profiles.[3][8] This type of decompression is used today by saturation divers. His work was financed by Augustus Siebe and the Siebe Gorman Company.[3]

Other interests

Hill was a distinguished watercolourist and also wrote children's stories. He was fond of the outdoor life, and went every day to bathe in a pond in Epping Forest at Loughton where he lived. He later moved to Hampstead.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Douglas, C. G. (1953). "Leonard Erskine Hill. 1866-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8 (22): 431–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0009. JSTOR 769221.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. PMC 1902312Freely accessible. PMID 4868973.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  4. ↑ Hill, L.; Barnard, H.; Sequeira, J. H. (1897). "The Effect of Venous Pressure on the Pulse". The Journal of Physiology. 21 (2–3): 147–159. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1897.sp000648. PMC 1512990Freely accessible. PMID 16992380.
  5. ↑ "Background of the Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Recipients". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sidey Medal Winner". Auckland Star. LXVII (280). 25 November 1936. p. 16. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  8. 1 2 Hill, L (1912). Caisson sickness, and the physiology of work in compressed air. London E. Arnold. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
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