Harold Hillman was born in London in 1930, and entered University College School with scholarship. He studied at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, and graduated with a medical degree, M.B., B.S., and a diploma, MRCS, LRCP in 1956. He then took a B.Sc. in physiology and biophysics at University College, London, in 1958, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, in 1963.

He was appointed Honorary Docent at the Institute of Neurobiology, Goteborg, Sweden, from 1962 to 1964. He was subsequently Lecturer in Applied Neurobiology, London, from 1964 to 1965. He was Senior Lecturer in physiology at Battersea College from 1965 to 1968, when he was appointed Reader in physiology at the University of Surrey in 1968. He was made the Director of the unity Laboratory of Applied Neurobiology at the University of Surrey in 1970. He retired from these posts in 1998.

He has written six books on cell biology and neurobiology, two with co-authors, and published about one hundred and seventy full length papers in neurobiology, cell biology and resuscitation, which you will be able to download from this website soon. He was the founder editor and Editor in Chief of ‘Resuscitation’ from 1970 to 1985.