Education
Hamill attended and the Perse School for Girls. In 1942, she won a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, became a wrangler in 1945.
Hamill attended and the Perse School for Girls. In 1942, she won a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, became a wrangler in 1945.
After receiving her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 1951, she was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Sheffield. In 1954, she was appointed lecturer in the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria where she died of polio in 1956, four months before she was to have married.