| Authorised form of name | Hill; Rodney (1921 - 2011) |
| Dates | 1921 - 2011 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Stourton, Leeds, Yorkshire |
| Date of birth | 11/06/1921 |
| Date of death | 02/02/2011 |
| Activity | Education:
Scholarship to Leeds Grammar School; scholarship to read Mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge - completed his degree in two years, received a First (1938-1940)
Career:
War work for Ordnance Board at Cambridge's Mathematical Laboratory; joined Professor Nevill Mott's team at Fort Halsead, near Sevenoaks, Kent for theoretical research on armaments and problems with explosoves (1943-1946); seconded by the Ministry of Supply to the metal physicists under Egon Orowan at CAvendish Laboratory Cambridge(1946-1949); moved to Sheffield to head a new section in the Metal Flow Research Laboratory of the British Iron and Steel Research Federation (2949-1950); moved to Bristol University for a three year research fellowship in department of Physics and Mathematics(1950-1953); Chair in Applied Mathematics at Nottingham University (1953-1962); created a Department of Theoretical Mechanics within the Faculty of Engineering at Nottingham (1960).Elected to a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge (1963-1969) then the university conferred a personal Readership in the Mechanics of Solilds (1969-1972), then appointed a personal professorship (1972). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1961 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1993 |
| Relationships | Married, Jeanne Wickens (1946) who died 2003; one daughter |
| Published works | Doctoral thesis 'Theoretical Studies of the Plastic Deformation of Metals' 1949, published 1950 established him as the leding authority in the field. Principles of Dynamis' 1964, undergraduate textbook. |
| Sources | Obituaries;
The Telegraph, 8 March 2011 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/108135253 |
| Royal Society code | NA3900 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1961/10 | Hill, Rodney: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 16 March 1961 |
| IM/002098 | Hill, Rodney | 1964 |
| RR/70/138 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'A theory of the yielding and plastic flow of anisotropic metals' by Rodney Hill | 1947 |
| RR/69/167 | Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'The theory of wedge indentation of ductile materials' by Rodney Hill, Eva H Lee and S J Tupper | 1945 |
| RR/70/140 | Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'The theory of combined plastic and elastic deformation with particular reference to a thick tube under internal pressure' by Rodney Hill, Eva H Lee and S J Tupper | 20 March 1947 |
| RR/70/139 | Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'A theory of the yielding and plastic flow of anisotropic metals' by Rodney Hill | 1947 |