Editing Mill Hill (section)

==Invention and discovery==
[[File:Mill hill observatory 2009.JPG|thumb|University of London Observatory]]
[[File:NIMR building.JPG|thumb|National Institute for Medical Research]]
In 1749 the botanist [[Peter Collinson (botanist)|Peter Collinson]] inherited an estate which is now part of Mill Hill School, here he created a botanical garden.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|editor=R. W. Burchfield|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=September 2004|chapter=Collinson, Peter (1694–1768)}}</ref> The lexicographer [[James Murray (lexicographer)|James Murray]] started work on the first [[Oxford English Dictionary]] in 1879, whilst teaching at [[Mill Hill School]]. He had a building built in the school grounds to house the quotation slips and his small editorial staff. Murray called this building his [[scriptorium]], when the project moved to [[Oxford]] the building was used by the school as a reading room.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|editor=R. W. Burchfield|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=September 2004|chapter=Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry (1837–1915)}}</ref>

In the Second World War the [[Maudsley Hospital]] moved to the evacuated Mill Hill School as the Mill Hill Emergency Hospital. Here John C. Raven developed a verbal intelligence test called the Mill Hill Vocabulary scale.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Psychology|editor=Andrew M. Colman|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|chapter=Mill Hill Vocabulary scale}}</ref>

[[University of London Observatory]] is a teaching astronomical observatory which is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at [[University College London]]. It is situated on the [[A41 road|A41]] Watford Way, southeast of The Broadway. The Observatory was opened on 8 October 1929 by the [[Astronomer Royal]] [[Frank Watson Dyson]]. In 2009, student astronomers at the observatory tracked the [[extrasolar planet]] [[HD 80606 b]] and for the first time accurately calculated its size.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6135796.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604153331/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6135796.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2011|title=Student astronomers see far beyond the bright lights of London|last=Henderson|first=Mark|date=21 April 2009 |newspaper=The Times|access-date=20 January 2010|location=London}}</ref>

The [[National Institute for Medical Research]] was a large medical research facility situated on the Ridgeway. Researchers at the Institute have, amongst other achievements, developed [[gas-liquid chromatography|liquid and gas chromatography]], discovered [[interferon]] and also discovered the sex determining gene [[SRY]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/about/scientific-achievements/|title=About us:Scientific achievements|publisher=National Institute for Medical Research|access-date=26 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023012056/http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/about/scientific-achievements/|archive-date=23 October 2014}}</ref> In 2018 the Medical Research building was demolished to make way for new homes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://barnetsociety.org.uk/component/k2/demolition-eats-away-at-local-landmark |title=Demolition eats away at local landmark |publisher=The Barnet Society |first=Nick |last=Jones |date=9 April 2018 |access-date=3 July 2018 }}</ref>