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Rowland Hill
Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters. Hill later served as a government postal official, and he is usually credited with originating the basic concepts of…
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science · Devisor of the British postal system (1795–1879) · teacher · politician · inventor · beamter · also Rowland Hill, Sir Rowland Hill, Hill
Born 3 December 1795 · Died 27 August 1879 · Q370241
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2026· 2 entries
Spectrum News 13: Family remembers Daryl Hill as a helper and hero
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,732 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials” in The Lancet — cited 7,238 times.
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Published “Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans” in Nature — cited 9,070 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Monotherapy in Untreated Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 7,010 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic” in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology — cited 8,672 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “SEVEN-YEAR<i>WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE</i>(<i>WMAP</i>) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 6,925 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Published “Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene” in Nature Materials — cited 7,478 times.
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Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,940 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 37,051 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Are annual awards for philatelic "innovation, initiative and enterprise
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1952· 1 entry
Published “The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate” in Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section A — cited 10,617 times.
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame (1941).
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1940· 1 entry
It was removed for safekeeping for the duration of the Second World War
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1928· 1 entry
To help serving or retired staff and their dependents, for the former Department of Posts and Telegraphs and continues to serve the reorganised companies An Post and eircom
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1893· 1 entry
Commemorates Hill at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead
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1882· 1 entry
The Post Office instituted the Rowland Hill Fund for postal workers, pensioners and dependents in need
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1881· 1 entry
Stands outside the King Edward Building (formerly London's principal Post Office) in King Edward Street
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1879· 1 entry
Died 1879-08-27.
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1874· 1 entry
1891 (when it was placed in the city's General Post Office) and 1934
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1864· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1864).
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1846· 1 entry
The Conservative Party split over the repeal of the Corn Laws and was replaced by a Whig government led by Lord John Russell
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1844· 1 entry
Edwin Chadwick, Rowland Hill, John Stuart Mill, Lyon Playfair, Dr
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1840· 1 entry
The first year of Penny Post, the number of letters sent in the UK more than doubled
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1839· 1 entry
Hill was given a two-year contract to run the new system
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1836· 1 entry
Robert Wallace, MP, provided Hill with numerous books and documents, which Hill described as a "half hundred weight of material"
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1833· 2 entries
The original Hazelwood School closed and its educational system was continued at the new Bruce Castle School
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Advanced the view that "nothing contributes more to facilitate commerce than the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters
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1832· 1 entry
Rowland Hill published a tract called Home colonies: sketch of a plan for the gradual extinction of pauperism, and for the diminution of crime, based on a Dutch model
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1827· 2 entries
Married Caroline Pearson, originally from Wolverhampton, who died on 27 May 1881
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A branch of the school was created at Bruce Castle in Tottenham, London
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1819· 1 entry
Moved his father's school "Hill Top" from central Birmingham, establishing the Hazelwood School, at Edgbaston, an affluent neighbourhood of Birmingham, as an "educational refraction of Priestley's ideas"
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1795· 1 entry
Born 1795-12-03.
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