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Richard K. “Dick” Hill, 96, of Rockville, Maryland, died March 11, 2025.
Credit: Courtesy of the Richard K. Hill estate
Richard K. Hill
"Dick was a faculty member at Princeton University from 1953 to 1968 and at the University of Georgia from 1968 to 1993. He is remembered by students for his kindness and encouragement. At the University of Georgia, he received a General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and he was selected three times by undergraduates as Chemistry Teacher of the Year. Dick was a longtime reader for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. He enjoyed swimming, tennis, chess, poker, and summers in Maine, where he swam with loons and rowed with seals."—Ellen Hill, daughter
Most recent title: Professor of chemistry, University of Georgia
Education: BS, chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 1949; MS, organic chemistry, 1950, and PhD, organic chemistry, 1954, Harvard University
Survivors: Daughters, Julie Fulcher, Holly Hill, and Ellen Hill; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. Predeceased by wife Joan Hill and daughter Sybil Hill
This remembrance has been edited for length, clarity, and style. To recognize your late loved one or colleague, submit obituary information at cenm.ag/obits.
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