Victor E. Hall

Victor Ernest Hall (February 11, 1901 – July 23, 1981) was a Canadian scientist who researched physiology. His teaching and research career was spent at Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles. He was executive editor of the Handbook of Physiology and long-time editor of the peer-reviewed journal the Annual Review of Physiology.

Early life and education Victor E. Hall was born on February 11, 1901, in Victoria, British Columbia to parents Ernest Amos Hall, a physician, and Mary Louisa Hall . He was afflicted by polio as a child; he relied on crutches to stand and walk. He attended the Victoria Normal School for one year and briefly attended University of California, Berkeley before transferring to Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford with his undergraduate degree in 1922, his master's degree in physiology in 1925, and his Doctor of Medicine in 1928. For more than twenty years (1947–1971), Hall was the editor of the Annual Review of Physiology. He was also the executive editor of the Handbook of Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society. They had several children.