About James Peter Hill
Lived 1873 – 1954 (aged 81). James Peter Hill was a British zoologist and anatomist.
Career Hill moved to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal. He is also noted for studies of marsupials. He returned to Britain and UCL in 1906 as the Jodrell Chair of Zoology and curator of what is now the Grant Museum of Zoology. In 1921 was made the first Chair of Embryology and Histology at UCL.
Awards and honours In 1907 he was awarded the Mueller Medal by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913
Personal life He had retired in 1938, but is said to have continued working at home until his death.
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Who was James Peter Hill?
British zoologist (1873–1954)
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James Peter Hill was born on 21 February 1873.
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James Peter Hill died on 24 May 1954.
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James Peter Hill was a zoologist and anatomist.
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James Peter Hill was British.
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