History - People - Samuel Smiles FRS

Samuel Smiles FRS (Belfast 1877 - Tunbridge Wells 1953) Tenure: Assistant 1902 - 1908 Assistant Professor 1908 - 19

Samuel Smiles was on the staff at UCL until 1919 when he moved first to Newcastle and then to the Anglican Institution in the Strand.

As a chemist, Smiles is remembered for the eponymous rearrangements of substituted aromatics. These were first described in a series of about a dozen papers beginning in 1931 ( J. Chem. Soc. , 1931 , 914).

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