Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922, announced October 25, 1922. Archibald V. Hill (1/2), “for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle”. Otto Meyerhof (1/2), “for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle”. Archibald V. Hill: born 1886, Bristol, United Kingdom. Otto Meyerhof: born 1884, Hanover, Germany. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).