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Scottish physician and academic (1721-1797)
John Smith (1721–1797)
[1] was a
Scottish physician and academic.
[2]
Smith was born in
Maybole,
Scotland, where his father, William, was a merchant.
[1]
[3]
He studied at the
University of Glasgow beginning in 1736, entered
Balliol College, Oxford in 1744 with the support of the
Snell Exhibition, and earned a B.A. in 1748 and an M.A. in 1751 from Balliol.
[1]
[3]
He then studied under
Nathan Alcock in
St Mary Hall, earning his doctorate in 1757.
[1]
[4] Alcock left Oxford for Bath in the same year, and Smith took his place.
[4]
[5] At Oxford, he taught
anatomy and
chemistry.
[2]
[5] Despite not being a mathematician, he held the
Savilian chair of geometry from 1766 until his death in 1797.
[2]
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Oxford Figures: Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences, Oxford University Press, p. 185,
ISBN
9780199681976.
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b Addison, William Innes (1901),
The Snell exhibitions: From the University of Glasgow to Balliol college, Oxford, J. MacLehose & sons, p. 45,
ISBN
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b Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence (1988),
Oxford and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 241,
ISBN
9780521301398.
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b Williams, Robert Joseph Paton; Chapman, Allan; Rowlinson, John Shipley (2009),
Chemistry at Oxford: A History from 1600 to 2005, Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 64,
ISBN
9780854041398.