Maurice Hill (geophysicist)

Maurice Hill FRS
Born	(1919-05-29)29 May 1919
Died	11 January 1966(1966-01-11) (aged 46)
Education	Highgate School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Children	Julia, 2 other daughters and 2 sons
Parent(s)	Margaret Keynes Archibald Hill
Family	Keynes
Awards	The Chree Medal and Prize (1963) Fellow of the Royal Society

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 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. In 1965, he became Reader in Marine Geophysics at the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge.

In 1944, he married Philippa Pass, daughter of Douglas Pass, and they had two sons and three daughters, including Julia Riley and Mark Hill.

Awards and honours

He was elected FRAS in 1951 and FGS in 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962. He was awarded the Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1963.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Maurice Hill (geophysicist)
Archibald Hill Maurice Hill John Keynes John Keynes Anna Neville Margaret Keynes John Brown Florence Brown Ada Ford