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Diana Hill (scientist)

Diana Florence Hill was a New Zealand biochemist and geneticist. She was an academic and full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in molecular genetics. Her team's work on the genetics of animal production won a Silver Medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 1996 and she was elected a Fellow in 1997.

Early life and education
Hill was born on 29 March 1943 at the Braeburn maternity hospital in Upper Hutt, to Norman Harold and Weva Marguerite Hill (). ==Career==
Career
Hill worked on techniques for sequencing of DNA and proteins, before becoming involved in animal breeding through the Invermay Agricultural Centre in Mosgiel. She recognised that the elite research flocks held at the centre offered the opportunity to explore the genetics of traits that are important for animal production. Though it was generally held that such traits were quantitative, she and her team developed methods to identifify single genes responsible for some. Hill established Global Technologies (NZ) Ltd in 1999, a joint venture with Silver Fern Farms and was awarded a personal chair at Otago. ==Death==
Death
Hill died in Whangārei on 9 July 2024, at the age of 81. ==Honours and awards==
Honours and awards
Hill received a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997. == Selected work ==
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