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Also known as Smith, Sir Andrew Smith

Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (1797–1872)

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  • Stretching the Sociological Imagination
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Country
US
Active from
1969-08-06
Active to
2003-10-21

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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

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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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date of birth
1797-12-03
date of death
1872-08-11
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Andrew Smith (zoologist)
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name in native language
Andrew Smith
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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.

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