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Dorothy Hill

Information from Australian Academy of Science, Emeritus professor Dorothy Hill, 1981, interviews with australian scientists, 7/11/13, http://science.org.au/scientists/interviews/h/dh.html.

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Australian scientist and geologist

The image of Great Barrier Reef was from http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive02434/greatBarrierReef_2434464b.jpg.

The image of Dorothy Hill was from http://science.org.au/scientists/images/dh.jpg.

Big Discovery

Dorothy's biggest discovery was at the Great Barrier Reef.

She was involved in the Great Barrier Reef Committee and helped realise that there was life in corals.

After nearly all reefs being polluted and life killed, they discovered that there was still one that had livable conditions.

Achievements

This effected Australia positively as it

brought attention and tourists to our

great nation.

Dorothy Hill achieved many things.

Here are only a couple of them:

-She was the first woman to be awarded the gold medal for the most outstanding graduate of the year.

-She was elected as fellow of the Australian Academy of Science which she soon became

Great Barrier Reef

president of.

Personal Life

Career

Education

Dorothy Hill was an Australian scientist and geologist born on the 10th of September 1907 in Taringa, Brisbane.

Her second school- Brisbane Girls' Grammar School- encouraged her to become what she is famous for today; discovering life in corals.

She unfortunately died in 1997 at the age of 90.

After returning to Australia in 1938, Hill took a position as a research fellow at CSIR (now CSIRO) until 1943.

As well as researching at the University of Queensland, she was a lecturer there too.

In 1943 Dorothy still researched at the University of Queensland even though she worked as operation staff officer under the Women's Royal Service in the war effort.

Career

By Robyn Epps

Education

In 1945 Hill served as a representative of the Women's Services in the Demobilisation Planning Committee.

She was also a major part of the Great Barrier Reef Committee around 1926.

Dorothy Hill first went to Coorparoo State School and then she moved on to Brisbane Girls' Grammar School.

She received a scholarship to the University of Queensland where she completed a three year Bachelor of Science award with first class honours from 1925 to 1929.

In 1930 Hill received a travelling scholarship which she used to travel to the University of Cambridge in the UK to study her PHD.

She lived in Cambridge for three years and after finishing her PHD in 1932, she was rewarded an Old Students Fellowship of Newnham College.

Using an 1851 Senior Scholarship that she received in 1936, Dorothy kept her place as a researcher at the University of Cambridge for a further two years.

Dorothy Hill

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