Person
Hill, Robert Dickson (1913 - 2009)
- Born
- 3 July 1913
Yarraville, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 7 May 2009
Santa Barbara, California, United States of America - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Robert Hill was an Australian nuclear and atmospheric physicist. He lectured in Natural Philosophy and Physics at the University of Melbourne between 1942 and 1947 and worked at the CSIR Radio Physics Laboratory in 1943. He received his Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 1947. That same year he moved to the U.S.A. Where he worked until his retirement in 2000 from the University of California Santa Barbara.
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Chronology
- 1935
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1936
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1937 - 1939
- Career position - Postdoctoral research in physics at the University of Cambridge, UK and the University of Illinois, USA
- 1937 - 1939
- Career position - 1851 Exhibition Scholar
- 1940
- Career position - Scientific Officer at the Telecom Research Establishment, UK
- 1940 - 1942
- Career position - Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
- 1942 - 1943
- Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Physics Laboratory
- 1944 - 1947
- Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
- 1947
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, USA
- 1949 - 1955
- Career position - Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, USA
- 1955 - 1965
- Career position - Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, USA
- 1965 - 1973
- Career position - Physicist at the General Research Corporation, USA
- 1970 - 1990
- Career position - Consultant Physicist at the Office of Naval Research in Washington DC, USA
- 1973 - 2000
- Career position - Research Physicist at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA
- 2000
- Life event - Retired
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Hill, R. D., 'Some Comments on 'Forming New Physics Communities: Australia and Japan, 1914-1950', by R. W. Home and M. Watanabe', Annals of Science, 48 (1991), 583-587. Details
Resources
- Billett, Janet Roberts, Robert Hill interviewed by Janet Billett [sound recording], 3 micro sound cassettes (ca. 180 min.), National Library of Australia, 3 July 2000. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1511232. Details
- 'Hill, Robert Dickson (1913-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473503. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Hill, Robert Dickson', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001687p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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