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SAMUEL WALTER JOHNSON SMITH, formerly Poynting professor of physics in the University of Birmingham, died on August 20 in his seventy-eighth year. His death will be deeply regretted by many former students of the Royal College of Science, London, and of the University of Birmingham, who will remember him gratefully both as a teacher and as a friend.
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OLIPHANT, M., DEE, A. Prof. S. W. J. Smith, F.R.S. Nature 162, 519–520 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162519a0
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