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THE death occurred at Eltham on July 15 of Mr. H. W. Hilliar, formerly a superintending examiner in the Patent Office. After serving for a time as a chemist at the British Uralite Works near Gravesend, Hilliar (who had taken his B.Sc. at London) entered the Patent Office as an assistant examiner in 1906 at a time when the staff had been greatly enlarged to deal with the newly instituted search for novelty of inventions. By 1914 his work had already received special recognition, and when the War broke out he was lent to the Research Department of the Admiralty, where he conducted important investigations upon the effect of depth charges, for which he was made C.B.E.
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Mr. H. W. Hilliar, C.B.E. Nature 148, 159–160 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148159b0
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