Leonard Hill (physiologist)
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Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS 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 B
Sir L.E. Hill. Credit:Wellcome Library
Blue plaque commemorating the family home in Loughton
Decompression (diving)
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The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth or depressurisation of a diving chamber. It is also the process of elimination of dissolved metab
Leonard Hill (physiologist)
…Manual of Human Physiology (1935) Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Works by or about Leonard Erskine Hill at Wikisource…
Divers decompressing in the water at the end of a dive
Basic deck decompression chamber
Recreational decompression tables printed on plastic cards
Divers using the anchor cable as an aid to depth control during a decompression stop