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Authorised form of nameSmuts; Jan Christian (1870 - 1950)
Dates1870 - 1950
NationalitySouth African
Place of birthBovenplaats farm, near Riebeek West, Malmesbury district of Cape Colony [now in South Africa], Africa
Date of birth24 May 1870
Place of deathOn his farm, Irene, near Pretoria, South Africa
Date of death11/09/1950
ActivityHonours:
CH 1917; OM 1947
Membership categoryStatute 12
Date of election26/06/1930
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 271-273, plate, by Waverley
CodeNA2380
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1930/17Smuts, Jan Christian: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/3230/ASmuts, Jan Christiannd
NLB/73/300Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [William] Hill, K. C. M. G., FRS9 May 1931
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