Biographical entry Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1906 - 1986)

Summary

Edwin Sherbon Hills was Lecturer in Geology 1932-44, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1944-62, Research Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1962-71, at the University of Melbourne. His interests were wide ranging and included fossil fishes, physiography, mineralogy and petrology, structure, tectonics and morphotectonics, and economic geology.

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Events

1928

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1929

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1929

Career position - Demonstrator in Geology at the University of Melbourne

1931

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London

1932 - 1938

Career position - Lecturer in Geology at the University of Melbourne

1938

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1938 - 1942

Career position - Acting Senior Lecturer (to 1940) then Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Melbourne

1939

Award - David Syme Research Prize received from the University of Melbourne

1942

Award - Wollaston Fund Award received from the Geological Society of London

1942 - 1943

Career position - Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Melbourne

1943

Career position - Geologist at the North Australia Observer Unit, Directorate of Army Research

1944 - 1971

Career position - Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Melbourne

1947

Career position - President of Section P (Geography) of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1947 - 1948

Career position - Dean of Science at the University of Melbourne

1947 - 1956

Career position - Chairman of Editorial Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria

1951

Award - Bigsby Medal received from the Geological Society of London

1952 - 1955

Career position - Chairman of the Interim Council and then Foundation President of the Geological Society of Australia

1954 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

1954 -

Award - Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1955 - 1956

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Victoria

1959 - 1962

Career position - Chairman of the Professorial Board and Pro-Vice-Chancellor

1959 - 1968

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Hydrology

1962 - 1968

Career position - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Victoria

1962 - 1971

Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor

1964 - 1971

Career position - Research Professor of Geology

1967

Award - Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London

1968

Award - Lomonosov Medal received from the University of Moscow

1970 - 1978

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Quaternary Research

1971

Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1972 -

Career position - Professor Emeritus

1977 - 1978

Career position - Chairman of the Commission on the Teaching of Geology, International Union of Geological Sciences

1979

Award - W.R. Browne Medal received from the Geological Society of Australia

1985

Career position - Member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Edwin Sherbon Hills - Records, 1950 - 1987, MS 92; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Edwin Sherbon Hills - Records, 1844 - 1988, MS 8564; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Edwin Sherbon Hills - Records, 1930 - 1988, DeB 698; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Articles

• Sherratt, Tim, A Model Scientist? Edwin Hills, Australasian Science, vol. Autumn, 1993. Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_hills.htm. Details

Books

• Sherratt, Tim; McCarthy, Gavan, A Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1992, 150 pp. Also available at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/hill/hills.htm. Details

Book Sections

• Turner, S. and Long, J.A, 'Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills: His Palaeontological Works', in Twidale, R. (ed.), A Small Collection of Informal Essays Prepared by Friends and Colleagues and Intended for Presentation to Prof. E.S. Hills on What Would have been his Eightieth Anniversary of his Birthday 31 August, 1986, 1986, pp. 1-14. Details
• Turner, S. and Long, J.A, 'Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills: His Palaeontological Works', in Le Maitre, R.W. (ed.), Pathways in Geology. Essays in Honour of Edwin Sherbon Hill, Memorial Volume Committee/Blackwoods, Melbourne, 1989, pp. 41-51. Details

Journal Articles

• Archbold, N.W., 'Hills, Edwin Sherborn (1906-1986), Geologist', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 533-534. Details
• Hill, Dorothy, 'Edwin Sherbon Hills, 1906-1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 79-95. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710079.htm. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Ernest Willington Skeats', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 66, no. 1-2, 1955, pp. 164-65. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Royal Society of Victoria - Approaching Centenary', The Australian Journal of Science, vol. 19, no. 4, 1957, pp. 144-145. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'William Noel Benson', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, vol. 4, 1958, pp. 27-33. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Frank Leslie Stillwell', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 1, 1966, pp. 58-66. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9660110058.htm. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'David Evan Thomas (1902-1978)', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, pp. 90-96. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9810520090.htm. Details

Resource Sections

• Sherratt, Tim; et al, Career Outline, Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1993. Also available at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/hill/HIP0001.htm. Details

Online Resources

• Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/hills/. Details
• 'Hills, Edwin Sherbon - Ms 92', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms092.html. Details
• 'Primary description of person CP 175; Edwin Sherbon Hills', in RecordsSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+175. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Royal Society of Victoria - Approaching Centenary', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/059.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Hills, E Sherbon', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635589. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; McCarthy, Gavan, Edwin Sherbon Hills Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/hill/hills.htm. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000497. Details
• Hyde, B. G. and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920127.htm. Details