Dr. Bertil Hille is an American biologist. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington since 1968. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut on October 10, 1940. He received his B.S. summa cum laude in Zoology from Yale University (1962) and his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University (1967). The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... This article is about the city in Connecticut. ... Yale redirects here. ... Rockefeller University is a small private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th street on York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ...

Dr. Hille is particularly well known for his research and expertise on cell signaling by ion channels. In addition to his significant research contributions, he is the author of several editions of Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes, widely described as the authoritative textbook on ion channels. This text is known for its clarity and precise language, for its attention to the history of neural membrane research, and for the breadth and depth of its scientific coverage. Another, unrelated ion channeling process is part of ion implantation. ...

Hille has received numerous awards, including co-recipient (with Rod MacKinnon and Clay Armstrong) of the 2001 Gairdner International Award (Canada) “for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science”; of the 1999 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (with Armstrong and MacKinnon) “for elucidating the functional and structural architecture of ion channel proteins”; and the 1996 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize at Columbia University (with Armstrong) for “exceptional accomplishments in biological and biochemical research” The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Dr. Hille was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, and to the Academy of Medicine in 2002. President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...

He is married to Merrill Burr Hille, a Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington, and has two sons, Eric and Trigva.