Leonard Hill (physiologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leonard Hill (physiologist)

British physiologist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1866

Place of Birth: Bruce Castle, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1952

Profession: university teacher, physiologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.