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Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS (10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.
May 13, 2024 · Dorothy Hill was an Australian geologist known for her seminal work on corals dating to the Paleozoic Era (roughly 539 million to about 252 million years ago) and championing the efforts of women in academia in 20th-century Australia. Hill became the first woman employed as a professor in Australia.
Dorothy Hill began to build up fossil specimens from Australian localities as well as others from the type localities overseas. Where she could not find a specimen from the type localities, she would obtain a thin section of a specimen that would serve as a basis for comparison of Australian faunas.
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This article was published online in 2022. Dorothy Hill, 1971. University of Queensland Archives, UQA S909 p1381b. Dorothy Hill (1907–1997), geologist, was born on 10 September 1907 at Taringa, Brisbane, third of seven children of Robert Sampson Hill, an English-born draper, and his Queensland-born wife Sarah Jane, née Kington.
In 1956 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and became President in 1970. More information about Professor Hill is available at Biographical memoirs—Dorothy Hill, 1907-1997. Contents. Getting to university and discovering geology. You were born in 1907, in Brisbane. Yes.
Mar 12, 2019 · The first woman elected president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first female university professor in Australia, Dorothy lived a fruitful and fulfilling life and career that left its mark upon the fields of geology and palaeontology forever.
Apr 23, 1997 · Dorothy Hill was Research Professor of Geology, University of Queensland 1959-1972 and served for six months as President of the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra in 1970. She was the first female elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) and has published widely on palaeontology, stratigraphy and geology.
