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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001687b.htm person Hill Robert Dickson AACR2 3 July 1913 7 May 2009 Place of Birth Yarraville, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Physicist 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. 1935 1935 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1936 1936 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1937 1939 Career position - Postdoctoral research in physics, University of Cambridge, UK and the University of Illinois, USA 1937 1939 Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship 1940 1940 Career position - Scientific Officer at the Telecom Research Establishment, UK 1940 1942 Career position - Lecturer in Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne 1942 1943 Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Physics Laboratory 1944 1947 Career position - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne 1947 1947 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne 1947 1949 Career position - Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, USA 1949 1955 Career position - Associate Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, USA 1955 1965 Career position - Professor of Physics, 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, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 2000 2000 Life event - Retired 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Awards, Australia (1891 - )

1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship: 1937-1939.

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 'Hill, Robert Dickson', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hill, Robert Dickson Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Hill, Robert Dickson Hill, Robert Dickson Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Resource: Robert Hill interviewed by Janet Billett [sound recording] Billett, Janet Roberts Robert Hill interviewed by Janet Billett [sound recording] National Library of Australia Journal Article: Some Comments on 'Forming New Physics Communities: Australia and Japan, 1914-1950', by R. W. Home and M. Watanabe Hill, R. D. Some Comments on 'Forming New Physics Communities: Australia and Japan, 1914-1950', by R. W. Home and M. Watanabe 1991 Annals of Science 48 583-587