Archibald Vivian Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 4986022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Archibald Vivian Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Archibald Vivian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Google (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Without Words
Jewels in my acquaintance with C. S. Sherrington, F. R. S
Much has been written and more still will be written, about Charles Sherrington, one of the most loveable of men and the greatest English physiologist since Harvey. In 1921, being then President of the Royal Society, Sherrington came to Manchester to receive an honorary degree. My wife invited him to come and stay with us and to meet him at dinner we asked Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), the philosopher—also a very great man. It was a lovely summer…
Age of election to the Royal Society
In two earlier papers (Notes and Records, April 1939, p. 71 and January 1954, Xp. 14) I discussed the statistics of former years about the age of election to the Society. The subject is not unimportant: academies can be ruined by electing people too old. In recent years the number of candidates for the fellowship has greatly increased: and fearing that this might have caused a rise in the age of election I have examined the results for the last 7…
J. D. Griffith Davies 1899-1953 (Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 1937-1946)
John David Griffith Davies was born at Trellech, Mon., on 9 January 1899. His childhood and youth were spent at Trellech Vicarage where his father, the Rev. Thomas Davies, was incumbent. Thomas Davies was of Cardiganshire yeoman stock: he served his parish faithfully for forty years, enjoying the long tramps which his visiting involved, and relaxed in gardening and in reading the classics. He was nearly forty when ‘Jack’ was born, he was set in a…
Age of election to the Royal Society
FOR many years, up to and including 1930, the number of annual elections to the fellowship (apart from those under Statute 12) was fifteen. From 1931 to 1938 it was seventeen, from 1939 to 1945 it was twenty, since 1946 it has been twenty-five
Darwin's letters to Lyell
The letters, 177 in number, which Darwin wrote to Lyell were offered for sale in Messrs Sotheby and Co.’s auction rooms on 3 April 1950. Approximately half of these letters were used, in whole or in part, by Francis Darwin in Life of his father, and it is well known that they reflect the lines of his thought over a period of some thirty years during which Darwin conceived and worked out his theory of the origin of species by natural selection. In…
Address of welcome to the members of the Executive Commitee of the International Council of Scientific Unions meeting in the rooms of the Royal Society on 4 December 1945
Throughout the 283 years of its existence the Royal t Society has been intimately concerned with promoting cordial and familiar relations between British scientists and those of other countries. For 222 years, indeed, it has had a special Officer, the Foreign Secretary, whose duty it is to deal with communications with foreign scientists. The Royal Society, after the first world war, took a leading part in the formation of the International Scien…
Notes and records of the Royal Society of London
A Conference of Fellows was held in the rooms of the Royal Society on 10 May 1945 to discuss certain questions arising from the Report on the Needs of Research in Fundamental Science, particularly in relation to ‘ rare subjects ’ in the universities. As a result of this meeting, a memorandum was drawn up by Professor A. V. Hill, then Biological Secretary. This memorandum, slightly abridged, was in the following terms: Under existing conditions th…
Age of election to the Royal Society
In 1925 Sir Arthur Schuster published in the Proceedings (vol. 107, p. 368) a very interesting study of the life statistics of Fellows of the Royal Society; he refers also to a paper on a similar subject communicated to the Society in 1892 by Lieut.-General R. Strachey. The Treasurer informs me that in the Council Minutes (p. 57) of 7 November 1878 there is a statement that the average age of election of the Fellows then alive was 40 9 years. Fro…
Croonian Lecture
On November 28,1660, a small body of learned men “according to the usuall custom of most of them” met together at Gresham College in the city of London to hear a lecture by one of their number, Mr. (later Sir Christopher) Wren. “After the lecture was ended, they did, according to their usual manner, withdrawe for mutual converse. Where, amongst other matters that were discoursed of, something was offered about a designe of founding a Colledge for…
Croonian Lecture
On November 28,1660, a small body of learned men “according to the usuall custom of most of them” met together at Gresham College in the city of London to hear a lecture by one of their number, Mr. (later Sir Christopher) Wren. “After the lecture was ended, they did, according to their usual manner, withdrawe for mutual converse. Where, amongst other matters that were discoursed of, something was offered about a designe of founding a Colledge for…
Age of election to the Royal Society
In 1925 Sir Arthur Schuster published in the Proceedings (vol. 107, p. 368) a very interesting study of the life statistics of Fellows of the Royal Society; he refers also to a paper on a similar subject communicated to the Society in 1892 by Lieut.-General R. Strachey. The Treasurer informs me that in the Council Minutes (p. 57) of 7 November 1878 there is a statement that the average age of election of the Fellows then alive was 40 9 years. Fro…
Address of welcome to the members of the Executive Commitee of the International Council of Scientific Unions meeting in the rooms of the Royal Society on 4 December 1945
Throughout the 283 years of its existence the Royal t Society has been intimately concerned with promoting cordial and familiar relations between British scientists and those of other countries. For 222 years, indeed, it has had a special Officer, the Foreign Secretary, whose duty it is to deal with communications with foreign scientists. The Royal Society, after the first world war, took a leading part in the formation of the International Scien…
Notes and records of the Royal Society of London
A Conference of Fellows was held in the rooms of the Royal Society on 10 May 1945 to discuss certain questions arising from the Report on the Needs of Research in Fundamental Science, particularly in relation to ‘ rare subjects ’ in the universities. As a result of this meeting, a memorandum was drawn up by Professor A. V. Hill, then Biological Secretary. This memorandum, slightly abridged, was in the following terms: Under existing conditions th…
Darwin's letters to Lyell
The letters, 177 in number, which Darwin wrote to Lyell were offered for sale in Messrs Sotheby and Co.’s auction rooms on 3 April 1950. Approximately half of these letters were used, in whole or in part, by Francis Darwin in Life of his father, and it is well known that they reflect the lines of his thought over a period of some thirty years during which Darwin conceived and worked out his theory of the origin of species by natural selection. In…
Age of election to the Royal Society
FOR many years, up to and including 1930, the number of annual elections to the fellowship (apart from those under Statute 12) was fifteen. From 1931 to 1938 it was seventeen, from 1939 to 1945 it was twenty, since 1946 it has been twenty-five
J. D. Griffith Davies 1899-1953 (Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 1937-1946)
John David Griffith Davies was born at Trellech, Mon., on 9 January 1899. His childhood and youth were spent at Trellech Vicarage where his father, the Rev. Thomas Davies, was incumbent. Thomas Davies was of Cardiganshire yeoman stock: he served his parish faithfully for forty years, enjoying the long tramps which his visiting involved, and relaxed in gardening and in reading the classics. He was nearly forty when ‘Jack’ was born, he was set in a…
Age of election to the Royal Society
In two earlier papers (Notes and Records, April 1939, p. 71 and January 1954, Xp. 14) I discussed the statistics of former years about the age of election to the Society. The subject is not unimportant: academies can be ruined by electing people too old. In recent years the number of candidates for the fellowship has greatly increased: and fearing that this might have caused a rise in the age of election I have examined the results for the last 7…
Jewels in my acquaintance with C. S. Sherrington, F. R. S
Much has been written and more still will be written, about Charles Sherrington, one of the most loveable of men and the greatest English physiologist since Harvey. In 1921, being then President of the Royal Society, Sherrington came to Manchester to receive an honorary degree. My wife invited him to come and stay with us and to meet him at dinner we asked Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), the philosopher—also a very great man. It was a lovely summer…
Writing Without Words
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