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He was trained primarily as a chemist, but in the inter-war years he was one of the pioneers who applied chemical skills and insight in attempts to understand living things, and thus established biochemistry on a sound basis as an independent discipline.
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ROBERT HILL 2 April 1899—15 March 1991 Elected F.R.S. 1946...
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He was trained primarily as a chemist, but in the inter-war years he was one of the pioneers who applied chemical skills and insight in attempts to understand living things, and thus established biochemistry on a sound basis as an independent discipline. His great love was for plants.
Robert Hill's most significant contribution to biology is the Hill reaction, which showed that chloroplasts can produce oxygen when illuminated with light in the presence of a suitable electron acceptor. Hill's experiments helped identify the role of water as a source of electrons during photosynthesis, highlighting its importance in the process.
Hill, Robert. (1899–1991), British biochemist. Hill, who was born on April 2, 1899, discovered in 1937 that isolated chloroplasts (the green particles responsible for photosynthesis in plants) could produce oxygen from water in the presence of light and an appropriate chemical compound introduced to serve as an electron acceptor, a process ...
Robert Hill (he was known to his friends and colleagues as Robin) was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on 2 April 1899. He was educated at Bedales School until 1917 when he was admitted to...
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One of the three founders of the National Trust, Octavia Hill was a pioneering thinker and social reformer. She worked tirelessly to improve urban housing and to protect green spaces and the impact of her life and work is still being felt.
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…the work of British biochemist Robert Hill. About 1940 Hill discovered that green particles obtained from broken cells could produce oxygen from water in the presence of light and a chemical compound, such as ferric oxalate, able to serve as an electron acceptor.
