What is it about?
It is a full account of Rodney Hill's personal and professional life, written by me at the request of The Royal Society.
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Why is it important?
The biography will be of very wide interest to scholars interested in the mechanics and physics of solid materials, especially metals in continuum and crystalline forms.
Perspectives
My own perspective is that of Hill's former student and then colleague and collaborator, and also as the editor (with H.G. Hopkins) of Hill's 60th birthday Festscrift in 1980, which contains invited articles by 20 authorities about the mechanics of solids.
Professor Michael J Sewell
University of Reading
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This page is a summary of: Rodney Hill. 11 June 1921 — 2 February 2011, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, August 2015, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2014.0024.
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