HILL A. V.: (1886-1977) British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and ...

HILL A. V.: (1886-1977) British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, 1922. T.L.S., A. V. Hill, one page, 4to, Burlington House, London, 15th May 1942, to the Organising Secretary of the British Soviet Alliance Anniversary, on the printed stationery of The Royal Society. Hill thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'I regard sound Anglo-Soviet relations as of very great importance both now and for the future and I welcome the fact that the first anniversary of the military alliance between Britain and the Soviet Union is to be celebrated appropriately' although continues 'I gather, however, from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, that the word 'sponsor' means either one who answers for an infant at its baptism or one who enters into an engagement on behalf of another. It would be misleading to allow my name to appear in a list of names in either of these capacities'. A letter of good content dating from World War II. With a received rubber stamp (dated 16th May 1942) to the lower right corner and a few small pinholes to the upper left corner, none affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG