Leonard Hill (physiologist)
Leonard Hill | |
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Sir L.E. Hill. Credit:Wellcome Library | |
| Born | 2 June 1866 |
| Died | 30 March 1952 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Haileybury College, University College, London |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine, Physiology |
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS (2 June 1866, in Bruce Castle, Tottenham – 30 March 1952, in Corton, Suffolk) was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 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.