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Authorised form of nameSmiles; Samuel (1877 - 1953)
Dates1877 - 1953
NationalityBritish
Date of birth17 July 1877
Date of death06/05/1953
ActivityEducation:
DSc
Honours:
OBE 1918
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1918
RelationshipsGrandson of Samuel Smiles, biographer (and subject of Vanity Fair cartoon)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 583-600, plate, by G M Bennett
CodeNA7221
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1918/20Smiles, Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/56/202Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Samuel] Smiles, FRS[16 December 1918]
NLB/57/230Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent22 September 1919
RR/62/32Referee's report by Samuel Smiles, on a paper 'The reactivity of the sulphur linkage in animal fibres—Part I The chemical mechanism of permanent set' by J B Speakman[March 1936]
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
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