Andrew Smith
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Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (1797–1872)
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- 353
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- Stretching the Sociological Imagination
- Chronicon
- CRAC Degree Course Guides
- Devil in the Stack
- Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations
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There are multiple artists with the name Andrew Smith. 1. Andrew Smith (b. 1970) is a British-Norwegian composer with a growing international reputation for choral and vocal music that links tradition with a contemporary idiom. In the words of Alexandra Coghlan, “…Smith’s compositions incorporate medieval textures and chant, which are reflected and inflected through [his] own contemporary idiom, blurring the modal clarity of plainchant with vivid cluster-chords and dissenting moments of chromat
Recent publications · Crossref
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- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,873x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,627x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,699x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,293x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1797-12-03 ) 3 December 1797, Hawick , Roxburghshire
- Died
- 11 August 1872 (1872-08-11) (aged 74), London
- Alma mater
- University of Edinburgh
- Fields
- Botany surgeon ethnologist zoologist
- Author abbrev zoology
- A. Smith
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Hawick
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- explorer
- Educated at
- University of Edinburgh
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- ornithology
- Conflict
- Crimean War
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- Sir Andrew Smith.jpg
- Residence
- Scotland
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- date of birth
- 1797-12-03
- date of death
- 1872-08-11
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- Andrew Smith
- Commons category
- Andrew Smith (zoologist)
- author citation (zoology)
- Smith
- name in native language
- Andrew Smith
- writing language
- English language
- member of
- Royal Society
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Andrew Smith KCB (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.
Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh obtaining an M.D. degree in 1819, having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrew Smith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.