Charles Phelps Smyth
| Charles Phelps Smyth | |
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| Born |
February 10, 1895 Clinton, New York, United States |
| Died | March 18, 1990 (aged 95) Bozeman, Montana, United States |
| Residence | Princeton, New Jersey |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Education | Princeton University Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodore William Richards |
| Doctoral students | William O. Baker |
| Notable awards |
Medal of Freedom (1947) Nichols Medal (1954) |
Charles Phelps "Charlie" Smyth (/smaɪθ/; February 10, 1895 – March 18, 1990) was an American chemist. He was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University. From 1920 to 1963 he was a faculty member in the Princeton Department of Chemistry, and from 1963 to 1970 he was a consultant to the Office of Naval Research. He was awarded the Nichols Medal by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society in 1954.
During World War I he worked in the National Bureau of Standards and the Chemical Warfare Service, and during World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project and Operation Alsos. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1947 for the last.
Smyth was born February 10, 1895, in Clinton, New York, to Ruth Anne Phelps and Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., a professor of geology at Hamilton College. Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton University, convinced Smyth pére to join the faculty at Princeton, and in 1905 the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey.
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