A. V. Hill sticks his neck out.

It is probably unprecedented that an afterdinner speech for the general public is converted into a review article that, 65 years later, is still on an exponential growth curve of citations in the primary scientific literature. But then again, Archibald Vivian Hill was not your average after-dinner speaker. Hill shared a Nobel Prize in 1922 for his discoveries related to muscle heat production and efficiency, and his subsequent contributions were arguably even more important.