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Archibald Smith

1813–72

Scottish mathematician. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1836. Called to the bar, 1841. Worked on the effect on iron in a ship on the compass. FRS 1856.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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