Name Alexander Smith Role Chemist | Died 1922 | |
Books Intermediate Text Book of Chemistry, A Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry | ||
Education University of Edinburgh | ||
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Alexander Smith (11 September 1865 – 8 September 1922) was an American chemist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Biography
He was the son of Alexander Smith, an Edinburgh musician, and was educated at Edinburgh College. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1886 and received the degree of Ph.D. at Munich in 1889.
After moving to the United States, Smith was Professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Wabash College (1890–94) and later a faculty member at the University of Chicago (1895-1911). His former student James Bert Garner at Wabash College went on to invent the gas mask. In 1911 he was called to Columbia University to be Professor and head of the department of chemistry, and in the same year he held the presidency of the American Chemical Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1915.
In 1905 he married Sarah Bowles. He died in Edinburgh.