Bill Hill (geneticist)

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Bill Hill
Genetics Society
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisStudies on artificial selection (1965)
Doctoral advisorAlan Robertson[1]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/william-g-hill(aadaaf9c-71b6-41e0-a64b-97fcc0e4ba92).html

William George Hill

FRSE[6] (7 August 1940 – 17 December 2021)[7][5] was an English geneticist and statistician. He was a professor at University of Edinburgh.[8][9][7][10] He is credited as co-discoverer of the Hill–Robertson effect with his doctoral advisor, Alan Robertson
.

Education

Hill was educated at

PhD in population genetics with Alan Robertson.[1][11][12] His presented thesis was "Studies on artificial selection".[13] He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree in 1976 for research on quantitative genetics.[14]

Research and career

Hill was distinguished for his theoretical contributions to the study of the population and quantitative genetics of finite populations, in particular with respect to multilocus problems.

quantitative variation in random breeding populations, both in the design and interpretation of selection experiments and in the analysis of similarity between relatives. He applied these concepts in his own selection experiments in the laboratory and in farm animal improvement programmes.[6]

Hill served as

Proceedings of the Royal Society B from 2005 to 2009.[15][16]

Awards and honours

Hill was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985[6][17] and appointed OBE in 2004.[7][6]

In 2018 he was awarded The Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his research in quantitative genetics.[18]

In 2019 he was awarded The Genetics Society's

Mendel Medal at The Centenary of Genetics Conference, for his contribution to quantitative genetics.[19]

References

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  3. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.663290. Free access icon
  4. ^ Eyre-Walker, Adam (1992). "Studies of Synonymous Codon Evolution in Mammals". Edinburgh Research Archive. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
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  6. ^ a b c d e f Anon (1985). "Professor William Hill OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b c "HILL, Prof. William George". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ "Bill Hill, at Edinburgh University's site". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007.
  9. PMID 18454194. Open access icon
  10. ^ Bill Hill publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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  12. ^ Anon (2016). "Honorary Member Biographies: Professor William G. Hill". genetics.org.uk. The Genetics Society. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016.
  13. ^ Hill, William George (1965). "Studies on artificial selection". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. hdl:1842/14072. Open access icon
  15. ^ Anon (2016). "Editorial Board: Proceedings of the Royal Society: B" (PDF). rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2016.
  16. PMC 2614263
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  17. S2CID 259091650
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  18. ^ "Darwin Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  19. ^ "Mendel Medal 2019 – Professor William G. Hill". Genetics Society. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
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