Authorised form of name | Hill; Dorothy (1907 - 1997) |
Dates | 1907 - 1997 |
Nationality | Australian |
Place of birth | Brisbane, Australia |
Date of birth | 10/09/1907 |
Date of death | 23/04/1997 |
Research field | Geology |
Palaeontology |
Activity | Education: Cooparoo State School; Brisbane Girls' Grammar School (1920-1924); University of Queensland (graduated 1928, geology) Career: Gained Gold Medal as most outstanding graduate of the year, the first woman to achieve this at the University of Queensland (1928); Foundation Travelling Scholar, Geology Department, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge (1930-1932); worked on carnboiferous corals; Old Students' Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge (1932); achieved Air Pilot's 'A' Licence; returned to Australia (1937); Research Fellow, Geology Department, University of Queensland (1937-1942); involved with the Science Students' Association, encouraging students to continue research; worked with Shell Petroleum on mapping and drilling work (1939-1940); joined Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) working in cypher and coding (World War II); involved with the Great Barrier Reef Committee, Secretary (1945-1955); Lecturer (1946-1952), reader (1955-1959), then Research Professor (1959-1972), all in Geology Department, University of Queensland; Editor of the 'Journal of Geological Society of Australia' (1958-1964); assisted the development of the University library, and what was the Geology Department library is now known as the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library; edited a State Geology of Queensland (published 1960); first President, International Association for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera (1971); President, Professorial Board of the University of Queensland (1971-1972) Honours: CBE 1971 Memberships: Fellow, Australian Academy of Sciences (1956; President 1970); Commonwealth Fellow, Geological Society of London; Honorary Member, Geological Society of Australia (President) |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 18/03/1965 |
Age at election | 57 |
Relationships | Daughter of Robert Sampson Hill and his wife Sarah Jane Kington; unmarried |
Source | Sources: AE Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1999 vol 45 pp 195-217, plate, by K S W Campbell and J S Jell |
Code | NA6954 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
PB/9/2/3/11/12 | Personal references and appointments: L-M | |
PB/3/2/1/18/6 | 'CORAL REEFS 2' | c.1961 |
PB/3/2/1/18/5 | 'CORAL REEFS 1. Maps' | 1961 |
RR/58/12 | Referee's report by John Stanley Gardiner, on a paper 'The British silurian rugose corals with acanthine septa' by Dorothy Hill | January 1936 |
RR/58/14 | Referee's report by Arthur Smith Woodward, on a paper 'The British silurian rugose corals with acanthine septa' by Dorothy Hill | February 1936 |
RR/58/15 | Referee's report by Leonard James Spencer, on a paper 'The British silurian rugose corals with acanthine septa' by Dorothy Hill | 29 January 1936 |
RR/58/13 | Referee's report by Henry Woods, on a paper 'The British silurian rugose corals with acanthine septa' by Dorothy Hill | January 1936 |
EC/1965/13 | Hill, Dorothy: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |