Henry John Stephen Smith
1826–83
Irish mathematician. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1849; lecturer in mathematics, 1850–73. Savilian Professor of geometry, University of Oxford, 1860. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1873. Member of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction, 1870–5. FRS 1861.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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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