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Authorised form of nameHill; Robert (1899 - 1991)
Dates1899 - 1991
Date of birth02 April 1899
Date of death15/03/1991
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1946
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1963; Copley Medal 1987
SourcesAssocMaterial:
NCUACS 46/2/94. Papers deposited in Cambridge University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1994 vol 40 pp 141-170, plate, by D S Bendall
Royal Society codeNA3391
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
PB/1/33/1/4Nobel Prize1948
EC/1946/12Hill, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/58/16Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Oxygen dissociation curves of muscle haemoglobin' by Robert Hill1936
RR/41/126Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'A method for the estimation of iron in biological material' by Robert HillSeptember 1930
RR/41/127Referee's report by Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, on a paper 'The porphyrin of component c of cytochrome and its relationship to other porphyrins' by Robert Hill and David KeilinSeptember 1930
RR/43/12Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The absorption spectrum of the component c of cytochrome' by Malcolm Dixon, Robert Hill and David KeilinJune 1931
RR/65/124Letter from unknown, on a paper 'Oxygen produced by isolated chloroplasts' by Robert Hill to Winckworth16 August 1938
RR/58/18Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The oxygen dissociation curve of haemoglobin in dilute solution' by Robert Hill and H P Wolvekamp May 1936
RR/58/19Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The oxygen dissociation curve of haemoglobin in dilute solution' by Robert Hill and H P Wolvekamp 1936
RR/65/123Referee's report by Henry Horatio Dixon, on a paper 'Oxygen produced by isolated chloroplasts' by Robert HillJanuary 1939
RR/65/122Referee's report by George Edward Briggs, on a paper 'Oxygen produced by isolated chloroplasts' by Robert HillJanuary 1939
RR/67/235Referee's report by Albert Charles Chibnall, on a paper 'The reduction of ferric oxalate by isolated chloroplasts' by Robert Hill and R ScarisbrickMay 1940
RR/58/17Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Oxygen dissociation curves of muscle haemoglobin' by Robert HillMay 1936
RR/48/23Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Estimation of haematin iron and the oxidation-reduction equivalent of cytochrome c' by Robert Hill and David Keilin[September 1933]
RR/71/104Referee's report by Robert Hill, on a paper 'The formation of choleglobin and the role of catalase in the erythrocyte' by E C Foulkes and R Lemberg[1948]
RR/74/43Referee's report by Robert Hill, on a paper 'Verdohaem and 'Verdoglobins'' by E C Foulkes, R Lemberg and P Purdom30 October 1950
RR/74/42Letter from Robert Hill, on a paper 'Verdohaem and 'Verdoglobins'' by E C Foulkes, R Lemberg and P Purdom, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society30 October 1950
RR/74/41Letter from Robert Hill, on a paper 'Verdohaem and 'Verdoglobins'' by E C Foulkes, R Lemberg and P Purdom, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society23 October 1950
RR/76/53Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'The preparation and some properties of cytochrome f' by H E Davenport and Robert Hill7 September 1951
RR/76/54Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'A natural factor catalysing reduction of methamoglobin by isolated chloroplasts' by H E Davenport, Robert Hill and Frederick Robert Whatley7 September 1951
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