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
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at
Cambridge
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.
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
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in 1962.
He was awarded the
Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1963.
Ancestry
References
1919 births
1966 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society
People educated at Highgate School
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Keynes family
British geophysicists
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
People educated at Byron House School
Marine geophysicists
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