Hill, Professor Archibald Vivian (1886-1977)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/74
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Hill, Professor Archibald Vivian (1886-1977)
Date(s)	: 1908-1957
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Hill | Archibald Vivian | 1886-1977 | physiologist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A.V. Hill was Professor of Physiology at the University of Manchester (1920-23) and University College London (1923-25) and Secretary of the Royal Society from 1935. He incorporated the liberation of energy in muscles and in 1922 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Otto Meyerhof.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters to Archibald Vivian Hill, 1911-1957, a few typed carbon copies of Hill's replies are included.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Full list of correspondents is available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The following miscellaneous letters were sent by Professor Hill to the Wellcome Institute Library in several batches between 1955-1970. The letters were assigned library accession numbers prior to transfer to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre and these have been included in the list for reference. There are two letters from Ivan Pavlov: the second, dated 13 Feb 1929 was presumably to A.V. Hill and evidently given to the Wellcome Institute separately.

Allied Materials

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: See also letters in GC/223 (Bayliss).

Further material is held at Churchill College Cambridge.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009