Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1906 - 1986)

Hills was Lecturer in Geology 1932-1944, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1944-1962, Dean of Science 1947-48, Research Professor (Personal Chair, Research in Geology) 1963, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1962-1971, at the University of Melbourne. He retired in 1971. His interests were wide ranging and included fossil fishes, physiography, mineralogy and petrology, structure, tectonics and morphotectonics, and economic geology.

Events

31 August 1906	Born
1928	BSc, University of Melbourne
1929	MSc, University of Melbourne
1929	Demonstrator in Geology, University of Melbourne
1931	PhD, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
1932 - 1938	Lecturer in Geology, University of Melbourne
1938	DSc, University of Melbourne
1938 - 1940	Acting Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Melbourne
1939	David Syme Prize, University of Melbourne
1940 - 1942	Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Melbourne
1942	Wollaston Fund Award, Geological Society of London
1942 - 1943	Associate Professor in Geology, University of Melbourne
1943	North Australia Observer Unit, Directorate of Army Research
1944 - 1971	Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Melbourne
1947	President, Section P (Geography), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1947 - 1948	Dean of Science, University of Melbourne
1947 - 1956	Chairman of Editorial Committee, Royal Society of Victoria
1951	Bigsby Medal, Geological Society of London
1952 - 1955	Chairman of the Interim Council and then Foundation President, Geological Society of Australia
1954	Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
1955 - 1956	President, Royal Society of Victoria
1958	Convenor of the Tectonic Map Committee for Australia and Oceania, International Geological Congress
1959 - 1962	Chairman of the Professorial Board and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne
1959 - 1968	Chairman, Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Hydrology
1960	William Smith Lecture, Geological Society of London
1962 - 1968	Chairman, Board of Trustees, National Museum of Victoria
1962 - 1971	Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne
1964 - 1971	Research Professor of Geology, University of Melbourne
1967	Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of London
1968	Lomonosov Medal, University of Moscow
1970 - 1978	Chairman, Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Quaternary Research
1971	CBE
1972	Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne
1977 - 1978	Chairman, Commission on the Teaching of Geology, International Union of Geological Sciences
1979	W.R. Browne Medal, Geological Society of Australia
1985	Member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala
2 May 1986	Died, Melbourne

Dean

• Office of the Dean of Science, Faculty of Science (1903 - )

  [1947 - 1948]

Professorial Chair

• Chair of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science (1900 - 1968)

  [1944 - 1962]

Professors

• Chair of Geology (Research in Geology), Faculty of Science (1963 - )

  [1963 - 1971]

• 'Hills, Edwin Sherbon - Ms 92', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms092.txt.
• 'Person Description - CP175 - Edwin Sherbon Hills', in RINSE, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+175.
• 'Hills, Edwin Sherbon - AAS Biographical Memoir', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/hills.htm.
• 'Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1906 - 1986), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, 2001 edn, 2001, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000497b.htm.
• Sherratt, Tim, 'A Model Scientist? Edwin Hills', Australasian Science, vol. Autumn, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_hills.htm.
• Sherratt, Tim and McCarthy, Gavan, 'Career Outline', in Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/hills/esh_car.txt.
• Sherratt, Tim and McCarthy, Gavan, Guide to the Records of Edwin Sherbon Hills, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/hills/.