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Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS (10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science. ==Education== Dorothy Hill was born in Taringa, the third of seven children, and grew up in Coorparoo in Brisbane. She attended Coorparoo State School followed by Brisbane Girls Grammar School. She received the Lady Lilley Gold Medal in 1924. Dorothy was an enthusiastic sportswoman, who pursued athletics at high school, and was an accomplished horsewoman at home. At University, she would participate in hurdles, running, hockey and rowing. She would play on the University of Queensland, Queensland state and Australian universities hockey teams. At Cambridge, she would take a pilot's licence. Following high school she considered studying medicine and pursuing studies in medical research, but at the time the University of Queensland did not offer a medical degree, and the Hill family could not afford to send Dorothy to Sydney. Luckily, she won one of twenty entrance scholarships to the University of Queensland in 1924 (after receiving the highest pass in the Senior Public Matriculation Exam), where she decided to study science, in particular chemistry. She chose to study geology as an elective, and under the guidance of Professor H.C. Richards she graduated in 1928 with a First Class Honours degree in Geology and the University's Gold Medal for Outstanding Merit. Hill continued to work as a UQ Fellow through 1929-30 on scholarship while she was studying her Master of Science, conducting research in the Brisbane Valley on the stratigraphy of shales in Esk and sediments in the Ipswich basin. She began to collect fossils after a holiday in Mundubbera had unearthed several during a holiday there. She was put forward for a Foundation Travelling Scholarship by Professor Henry Caselli Richards to study at the University of Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum, living in Newnham College, just as the Great Depression was taking effect. At Cambridge, Hill was a Fellow of Newnham College and the Segwick Museum and was supported from 1931-33 on an Old Students Research Fellowship〔 while she worked on her PhD under supervisor, Gertrude Elles. She continued to explore the theory that Australia had once been covered from north to south by an inland sea, as evidenced by the fossil corals she found in Mundubbera. She received a further scholarship, Senior Student of the Exhibition of 1851 for two years and the Daniel Pidgeon Fund award from the Geological Society of London which enabled her to remain in England until 1936. After Hill's return to Australia, she continued to study at the University of Queensland and took a Doctor of Science in 1942. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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