Professor

Dorothy Hill

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Dorothy Hill
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Has received world wide recognition for quality of her researches with fossil coral faunas.

Expertise type

  • Geology
  • Palaeontology
  • Earth Sciences

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Memoir

Dorothy Hill 1907-1997

Science, and the attempt to develop the academic standards of Australian universities, were the interests that dominated Dorothy Hill’s life. We refer not only to scientific endeavours as undertaken by herself and her colleagues, but also to basic approaches to administrative, commercial, educational and personal aspects of her life.
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Conversation with scientist

Emeritus Professor Dorothy Hill, Geologist

Dorothy Hill (1907–1997) was a pioneering Australian geologist who became the first woman to receive a gold medal for outstanding graduate at the University of Queensland and later the first female graduate from that university to earn a PhD at Cambridge, where she researched Carboniferous corals. She went on to have a distinguished career as a researcher and academic, serving at CSIR, lecturing at the University of Queensland, contributing to the war effort, and ultimately becoming the first female President of the Australian Academy of Science in 1970. Interviewed by Dr John R. Cole (toward a history of the University of Queensland).
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