Name James Hill Awards Linnean Medal Fields Embryology | Died May 24, 1954 | |
Born 21 February 1873 ( 1873-02-21 ) Institutions University College London Alma mater University of Edinburgh Notable awards FRS (1913)
Linnean Medal (1930)
Croonian Lecture
Darwin Medal Books The Development of the Primitive Streak, Head-process and Annular Zone in Tarsius: With Comparative Notes on Loris | ||
Education University of Edinburgh | ||
James Peter Hill FRS (21 February 1873 – 24 May 1954) was a British embryologist.
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Education
Born in Edinburgh, Hill gained a Doctor of Science degree at the University of Edinburgh.
Career
Hill moved to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal. He is also noted for studies of marsupials. He returned to Britain and UCL in 1906. In 1921 was made Chair of Embryology and Histology.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913 and delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1929. He received their Darwin Medal in 1940 for his research on marsupials and monotremes. He was elected President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1939 to 1941.
Personal life
He had retired in 1938, but is said to have continued working at home until his death.