Ernest Lester Smith

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Ernest Lester Smith (born August 7, 1904 , † November 6, 1992 ) was a British chemist and theosophist who worked for the pharmaceutical company Glaxo Laboratories and there mainly through his investigations into the kinetics of soap production, his research and development work on penicillin production during during the Second World War and subsequently for his contribution to the isolation of vitamin B 12 in 1948.

Elected member of the British Royal Society ( Elected FRS ) since 1957.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WFJCuthbertson, JEPage; Ernest Lester Smith. August 7, 1904 - November 6, 1992. Elected FRS 1957 ; in: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1994, p.394f ( English )
  2. ↑ Hans Beyer; Organic chemistry textbook ; Leipzig 1968; P. 617.
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Ernest Lester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist and theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1904
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1992