Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille ( born October 10, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American biologist and professor at the University of Washington.
Life
Bertil Hille is the son of Einar Hille. He earned in 1962 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, a bachelor's degree in zoology. In 1967 he graduated from the Rockefeller University in New York City a Ph.D. in life sciences ( life sciences ). As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the University of Cambridge in England.
1968 Hille received a PhD Student ( Assistant Professor ) in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle and in 1974 a full professorship.
Work
Hille published fundamental work on ion channels. Numerous researches were carried out on axons of frogs. In the early 1960s, Hille postulated the existence of ion channels and their ability to open under certain conditions and to close it again. He also explored ASSOCIATED between size of the ion channel and size of the corresponding ion. In the 1970s, he conducted research on the effect of local anesthetics on ion channels. His works were also fundamental to understanding why drugs can cause or treat cardiac arrhythmias. Hilles textbook Ionic Channels in Excitable Membranes has been published in several editions and is considered a standard work. Recent work dealing with G- protein -coupled receptors and calcium as a second messenger.