Henry Barker Hill (April 27, 1849 – April 6, 1903) was an American chemist and director of the Chemistry Laboratory at

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Biography

Henry Barker Hill was born in

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on April 27, 1849, the son of the Reverend Thomas Hill, president of

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and Harvard. He graduated from Harvard in 1869, then studied in Berlin under A. W. Hofmann. Upon his return, he became assistant in chemistry at Harvard, working alongside

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under professor

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. Hill became assistant professor in 1874 and full professor in 1884. He was a member of the

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, and a

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of the

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. He died at his home in

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on April 6, 1903.

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