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Catalogue description Papers of SIR FRANK E. SMITH, F.R.S. (1876 - 1969)
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| Reference: | CSAC 9.3.74 |
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| Title: | Papers of SIR FRANK E. SMITH, F.R.S. (1876 - 1969) |
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Description of the collection The papers consist of biographical material,reminiscences and information assembled by Sir Charles Goodeve for his Royal Society Memoir of Smith,and passed on by him. In the course of his enquiries,Sir Charles was able to establish the correct date of Smith's birth (1876),which had previously been accepted as 1879: see copy of Smith's birth certificate in Item 1. Because Smith died at the advanced age of 93,and had spent much of his career as a scientist in government and industry,no manuscripts or private papers remain. |
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Listed by: Jeannine Alton Harriot Weiskittel " |
| Date: | c1952 -c1972 |
| Held by: | Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 6 items |
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Summary of the career of Sir Frank Smith Note: a full list of Smith's Honours is given in the Royal Society Memoir,p.546 b.1876 Aston,Birmingham 1884 - 88 Corbett Street Board School,Smethwick 1888 - 91 Smethwick Central School 1894 - 95 Birmingham Technical School (now University of Aston) 1897 National Scholarship to Royal College of Science (now Imperial College) 1899 Associateship,R.C.S. 1900 - 01 Assistant Demonstrator,R.C.S. 1901 - 20 National Physical Laboratory 1901 Assistant to Director,Sir Richard Glazebrook 1909 Principal Assistant 1917 Superintendant,Electricity Department 1902 Married Nellie May King (died 1961) 1914 - 18 Work for Board of Invention and Research 1918 Fellow of The Royal Society 1920 - 29 Director,Scientific & Experimental Department,Admiralty 1922 - 29 Hon. Sec. British Association 1924 - 26 President,Physical Society 1925 Hughes Medal,Royal Society 1927 Duddell Medal,Royal Society 1929 - 39 Secretary,D.S.I.R. 1929 - 37 Physical Secretary,Royal Society 1934 Faraday Medal,Inst.Electrical Engineers 1937 Fellow,Imperial College 1939 - 55 Adviser on Research & Development,Anglo-Iranian Oil (later B.P.) 1939 - 42 Director, Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply 1940 - 42 Director of Telecommunications, M.A.P. 1940 - 46 Chairman, Technical Defence Committee, M.I.5 1941 - 47 Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council 1943 - 46 President, Institute of Physics 1944 - 57 Chairman, Research Committee, B.S.A. (Director, B.S.A.1947) 1946 - 54 Chairman, Road Research Board |
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