Andrew Smith
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Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (1797–1872)
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- Stretching the Sociological Imagination
- Chronicon
- CRAC Degree Course Guides
- Devil in the Stack
- Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations
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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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- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,508x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,722x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,696x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,858x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
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Key facts
- 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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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.