Edwin Sherbon Hills CBE FAA FRS (31 August 1906 – 2 May 1986) was an Australian geologist, a Foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and at the time of his death was regarded as one of Australia's "most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists".
Hills graduated from high school in 1924 and with classmate Harrie Massey received a scholarship to attend the University of Melbourne.
Hills had chosen his undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary,[1] however his studies led him to become a geologist and physiographer.
He began his PhD studies there in mid-1929 and continued to research fossil fishes and on the petrology and mineralogy of igneous rocks.
While at Melbourne his fields of research were broad encompassing Australian fossil fishes of the Upper Devonian and Cainozoic, physiography, hydrology, petrology and mineralogy of Victoria and economic geology.