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Authorised form of nameHill; Micaiah John Muller (1856 - 1929); mathematician
Dates1856 - 1929
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBerhampore, Bengal, India, Asia
Date of birth22 February 1856
Place of death39 West Heath Drive, Golders Green, Middlesex, England
Date of death11/01/1929
Dates and placesPlace of marriage: St Saviour's Church, Paddington, London, England
Cremation: Golders Green crematorium on 14 January 1929.
Occupationmathematician
Research fieldTheory of proportion
Differential Equations
Hydrodynamics
Mathematics
ActivityEducation:
School for the Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath; University of London (BA; MA); Peterhouse, Cambridge (Dsc)
Career:
Assistant to his professor, Olaus Henrici (FRS 1874) at University College; Professor of Mathematics at Mason College, Birmingham (1880); Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College London (1884-1907); Astor Professor of Mathematics, University of London (1907-1923).
Memberships:
London Mathematical Society (VP 1894-5)
Senate of the University of London (1900–26) and (vice-chancellor 1909–11)
Mathematical Association (President 1927–8)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1894
Age at election38
ProposerJames Cockle; Henry Charlton Bastain; John James Walker; George Carey Foster; Thomas George Bonney; William Boyd Dawkins
Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici; Arthur Cayley; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Edward John Routh; Alfred Bray Kempe; Percy Alexander MacMahon; Alfred George Greenhill
Royal Society activityCouncil (1911–13)
RelationshipsParents: Revd Samuel John Hill, a missionary, and Leonora Josephine Müller.
Siblings: Sir George Francis Hill, numismatist.
Spouse: Minnie Grace (1861–1920), daughter of Marriot Ogle Tarbotton (21 December 1892).
Children: Sir Roderic Maxwell Hill, renowned air force officer, Geoffrey Terence Roland Hill, aviator and aeronautical engineer, and a daughter.
General contextKnown for Hill's tetrahedra and Hill's spherical vortex.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1929 vol 124 pp i-v, plate, signed by L N G F
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/57376227
Royal Society codeNA1375
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1894/11Hill, Micaiah John Muller: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/28/144Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]5 February 1913
NLB/40/776Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons12 August 1909
NLB/3/551Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, 53 Parliament Hill Road, Hampstead10 July 1889
NLB/7/770Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph Prestwich, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1893
NLB/10/459Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1894
NLB/10/542Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 December 1894
NLB/10/485Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society 4 December 1894
NLB/13/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons9 October 1896
NLB/13/385Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]12 September [August] 1896
NLB/9/729Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, 27 Parliament Hill Road, Hampstead, N.W.6 July 1894
NLB/13/760Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons20 November 1896
NLB/16/692Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W M Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1898
NLB/19/439Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society3 October 1899
NLB/50/585Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Chairman of the Mathematics Committee12 August 1914
NLB/18/835Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor M J M Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Lake View, Northwood, Nr. Rickmansowrth29 May 1899
NLB/19/809Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Lake View, Northwood, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire1 January 1900
NLB/19/805Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1899
NLB/20/403Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1900
NLB/35/730Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons11 July 1907
MC/23/217Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society18 October 1908
NLB/47/457Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS3 February 1913
NLB/51/68Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee2 December 1914
NLB/47/620Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS4 March 1913
NLB/45/382Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS26 February 1912
NLB/45/854Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS20 May 1912
NLB/46/766Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead[October 1912]
NLB/47/224Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS19 December 1912
NLB/48/187Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1913
NLB/48/90Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1913
NLB/47/501Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill, FRS10 February 1913
NLB/48/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society27 May 1913
NLB/48/403Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee30 June 1913
NLB/48/817Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee17 October 1913
NLB/47/422Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead28 January 1913
NLB/48/830Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society21 October 1913
NLB/47/847Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee21 April 1913
NLB/48/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee7 July 1913
NLB/48/786Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee14 October 1913
NLB/50/95Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1914
NLB/50/800Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee9 November 1914
NLB/50/536Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee27 July 1914
NLB/50/767Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1914
NLB/55/225Copy letter from Miss Maud K. Jukes, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS24 January 1918
NLB/56/429Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS11 February 1919
NLB/54/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons18 May 1917
NLB/54/741Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]5 September 1917
NLB/54/462Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS; 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W.18 May 1917
NLB/56/119Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS26 November 1918
NLB/52/584Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Micaiah John Muller Hill, FRS; 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W.22 January 1916
RR/9/220Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'On the motion of fluid, part of which is moving rotationally and part irrotationally' by Micaiah John Muller Hill28 May 1884
NLB/47New Letter Book volume 47, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration12 November 1912-24 April 1913
NLB/56/425Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society10 February 1919
NLB/56/498Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Provost of University College25 February 1919
RR/9/219Referee's report by William Henry Besant, on a paper 'On the motion of fluid, part of which is moving rotationally and part irrotationally' by Micaiah John Muller Hill8 March 1884
RR/11/53Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' by Micaiah John Muller Hill27 October 1891
RR/11/55Referee's report by Samuel Roberts, on a paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' by Micaiah John Muller Hill24 November 1891
RR/11/56Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, on his paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society21 December 1891
NLB/58/809Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS21 June 1920
NLB/59/37Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS12 July 1920
NLB/59/858Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS22 November 1920
RR/12/137Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On a spherical vortex' by Micaiah John Muller Hill10 February 1894
NLB/61/688Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS11 October 1921
NLB/62/26Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, FRS18 November 1921
NLB/65/807Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Alfred Maurice] Binnie Esq.; 15 Portland Street, York4 January 1924
RR/12/86Detailed referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixonnd [1894]
RR/12/84Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon7 August 1894
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
NLB/48New Letter Book volume 48, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration25 April 1913-25 October 1913
RR/12/87Second letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon17 August 1894
RR/14/140Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon27 July 1899
IM/002097Hill, Micaiah John Muller1922
RR/14/141Detailed referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon26 July 1899
RR/14/139Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, regarding a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon27 July 1899
RR/14/33Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon[January 1899]
RR/12/85Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On the singular solutions of simultaneous ordinary differential equations and the theory of congruencies' by Alfred Cardew Dixon7 August 1894
RR/14/149Third referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon10 April 1900
RR/11/54Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On the locus of singular points and lines which occur in connection the theory of the locus of ultimate intersections of a system of surfaces' by Micaiah John Muller Hill27 October 1891
RR/13/253Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.— IV. On the probable errors of frequency constants and on the influence of random selection on variation and correlation' by Karl Pearson and Louis Napoleon George Filon17 February 1898
RR/14/38Letter from Micaiah John Muller Hill, to Arthur William Rucker, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon25 January 1899
RR/14/58Referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'Researches in vortex motion.—Part III. On spiral or gyrostatic vortex aggregates' by William Mitchinson Hicksnd [1898]
RR/14/146Second referee's report by Micaiah John Muller Hill, on a paper 'On simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon3 January 1900
NLB/38/674Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Micaiah John Muller, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1908
MC/27/174Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]24 February 1912
MC/28/146Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, University of London, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]26 September 1913
MC/28/145Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]26 May 1913
MC/28/143Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 January 1913
NLB/47/491Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor M [Micaiah] J [John] M [Muller] Hill FRS7 February 1913
MC/28/148Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]29 October 1913
MC/29/131Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, 18 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 February 1914
MC/29/132Royal Society Memorandum on the Report of the Standing Orders Committee, to Professor [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, [Royal Society]23 April 1914
MC/22/119Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Warwick Road, Margate, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 July 1907
MC/22/118Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Warwick Road, Margate, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society9 July 1907
MC/32/137Letter form [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W 3, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]4 August 1917
MC/32/138Letter from [Micaiah John Muller] Hill, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society14 May 1917
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/33/60Letter from [Andrew Russell] Forsyth, Imperial College of Science and Technology (Royal College of Science), South Kensington, London, S.W.7, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]6 November 1918
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