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Maurice Neville Hill FRS (29 May 1919 – 11 January 1966) was a British marine geophysicist.

Background

Hill was the son of Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Archibald Hill and his wife Margaret Hill, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of John Maynard Keynes. His sister was Polly Hill and his brother the biophysicist David Keynes Hill.

He was educated at Byron House, Highgate School and King's College, Cambridge, where he took his PhD and was a Fellow from 1949 and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences from 1961. In 1965, he became Reader in Marine Geophysics at the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge.

In 1944, he married Philippa Pass, daughter of Douglas Pass, and they had two sons and three daughters, including Julia Riley and Mark Hill.

Awards and honours

He was elected FRAS in 1951 and FGS in 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962. He was awarded the Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1963.

Ancestry

References

1. ^ Bullard, E. C. (1967). "Maurice Neville Hill 1919-1966". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 13: 192–203. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1967.0009.
2. ^ Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F. (ed). Highgate School Register 1833-1988 (7th ed.). p. 237. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
3. "HILL, Maurice Neville". Who Was Who online April 2014. A & C Black. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

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