David Hill, son of A V Hill, was a physiologist and biophysicist whose principle interest was muscle contraction. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he started research on muscle there and was quickly appointed a research fellow. During the Second World War, he worked on crush injuries and ballistics, returning afterwards to his muscle research, first at Cambridge, then (1948–49) as physiologist at the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, and finally as biophysicist back in Hammersmith (vice-dean, 1970–76). He used innovative techniques to investigate intracellular phenomena and, from 1971, collaborated with RHT Edwards and subsequently with PA Merton.

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