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HILL, Robert Dickson

Born Melbourne 3 July 1913. Education University of Melbourne (B.Sc. 1935, M.Sc. 1936, D.Sc. 1947), Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge, 1937-38, and University of Illinois, 1938-39. 1851 Exhibition scholar, 1937-39. Science officer, Telecommunications Research Establishment , U.K., 1940. Lecturer in natural philosophy, University of Melbourne, 1940-42; Senior lecturer 1944-47. C.S.I.R. Radiophysics Laboratory 1942-43. Assistant professor of physics, University of Illinois, 1947-49; associate professor 1949-55; professor 1955-65. Physicist, General Research Corporation, 1965-73. Research physicist, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-.
  1. (With E.H.S. Burhop and A.A. Townsend) Selective absorption of neutrons in silver. Nature, 138 (1936), 1094-1095.
  2. Absorption coefficients for A1, Cu and Ag in the x-ray region from 13 to 24A. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 161 (1937), 284-298.
  3. (With E.H.S. Burhop and A.A. Townsend) The production of gamma-rays by neutrons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 165 (1938), 116-132.
  4. (With A.A. Townsend) Intensity of gamma radiation produced by slow neutrons. Physical Society, London. Proceedings., 50 (1938), 534-539.
  5. (With W.E. Burcham and M. Goldhaber) Radioactivity produced in scandium by fast neutrons. Nature, 141 (1938), 510.
  6. (With M. Goldhaber and L. Szilard) Radioactivity induced by nuclear excitation. Physical Review, S.2, 55 (1939), 47-49.
  7. (Abstract) (With M. Goldhaber, P.G. Kruger and F.W. Stallmann) The disintegration of boron by slow neutrons. Physical Review, S.2, 55 (1939), 1117.
  8. (With W.E. Good) The disintegration of boron by slow neutrons. Physical Review, S.2, 56 (1939), 288.
  9. Production of He*3. Physical Review, S.2, 59 (1941), 103.
  10. Potential distributions of equal coaxial cylinders. Journal of Scientific Instruments, 22 (1945), 221-222.
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