David Keynes Hill

David Keynes Hill FRS (23 July 1915-18 August 2002) was a British biophysicist.

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Hill was the son of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife Margaret Keynes, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of John Maynard Keynes. His sister was economist Polly Hill and his brother the oceanographer Maurice Hill. He was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He married Stella Mary Humphrey, 1949, and they had four daughters; Harriet, Abbie, Maggie and Katy.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972.