Maurice Hill (geophysicist)

Maurice Neville Hill FRS^[1] (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 and sister of John Maynard Keynes. His sister was Polly Hill and his brother the biophysicist David Keynes Hill

He was educated at Byron House, Highgate School and King's College, Cambridge, where he took his PhD and was a Fellow from 1949 and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences from 1961.^[2] In 1965 he became Reader in Marine Geophysics at the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge.^[3]

In 1944 he married Philippa Pass, daughter of Douglas Pass, and they had two sons and three daughters, including

Julia Riley

and Mark Hill.

He was elected

Charles Chree Medal and Prize

in 1963.

^ ^a ^b Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F. (ed). Highgate School Register 1833-1988 (7th ed.). p. 237. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
^ "HILL, Maurice Neville". Who Was Who online April 2014. A & C Black. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

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