Agent TypePersonPlace of BirthMelbourne, AustraliaPlace of DeathSanta Barbara, CaliforniaActivities & OccupationsPhysicistsGenderMaleHistoryRobert Dickson Hill attended the University of Melbourne during the 1930s, completing a Masters degree in x-ray spectroscopy. In 1936 Hill worked with Maurice Goldhaber at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, where Hill was an Exhibition scholar, and then in 1938, Hill followed Goldhaber to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the United States. During the second World War, Hill worked in Australia and England, contributing to developments in radar systems, among other activities. In Australia, he worked at the CSIRO's Radiophysics Laboratory in 1943, and contributed to the development of optical munitions. Between 1940 and 1947, Hill lectured in physics at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated as a Doctor of Science in 1947 for his published research. That year, with his wife Judy and their son Bobby, Hill left Melbourne for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, becoming Professor of Physics in circa 1955. Following sabbatical leave in 1953-1954 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the focus of Robert Hill’s research turned to K particles and Tau and Pi mesons in high energy physics. From 1965, he worked on anti-ballistic missile systems for the General Research Corporation, a private company on contract to the US Defence Department, in Santa Barbara, California. Later he became a consultant on anti-ballistic missile systems with the Office of Naval Research. From 1990 until his retirement in 2000, Hill was based at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Robert Hill was a world authority on lightning.
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