Robert Angus (Angus) Smith
1817–84
Scottish chemist and environmental scientist. Studied chemistry with Justus von Liebig; PhD, Giessen, 1841. Worked chiefly on the impact of decomposing matter on public health. Vice-president of the Chemical Society, 1878–80; of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1857–81 (president, 1864–5). FRS 1857.
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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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