Maurice Neville Hill
FRS (29 May 1919 – 11 January 1966) was a British marine geophysicist.
Background
Hill was the son of Nobel Prize–winning physiologist
Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife
Margaret Hill, the daughter of
John Neville Keynes
John Neville Keynes ( ; 31 August 1852 – 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.
Biography
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Keynes was the child of John Keynes (1805–1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville ...
and sister of
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...
. His sister was
Polly Hill and his brother the biophysicist
David Keynes Hill
David Keynes Hill FRS (23 July 1915 – 18 August 2002) was a British biophysicist.
Hill was the son of Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife Margaret Hill, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of Jo ...
.
He was educated at
Byron House,
Highgate School
Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...
and
King's College, Cambridge
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, where he took his PhD and was a Fellow from 1949 and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences from 1961.
In 1965 he became
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in Marine Geophysics at the Department of
Geodesy
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and
Geophysics
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at
Cambridge
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.
In 1944 he married Philippa Pass, daughter of Douglas Pass, and they had two sons and three daughters, including
Julia Riley
Julia M. Riley (née Hill) is a British astrophysicist who developed the Fanaroff–Riley classification.
Personal and professional background
She is the daughter of Philippa (born Pass) and British marine geophysicist Maurice Hill and grand ...
and Mark Hill.
Awards and honours
He was elected
FRAS FRAS may refer to:
* Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, post-nominal letters
* Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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in 1951 and
FGS in 1953.
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...
in 1962.
He was awarded the
Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1963.
References
1919 births
1966 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society
People educated at Highgate School
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Keynes family
British geophysicists
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
People educated at Byron House School
Marine geophysicists
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