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THE death of Prof. Arthur Smithells, on February 8 at the age of seventy-eight years, has removed from the world of science one of the most distinguished participants in the successful effort that has been made in the last half century to break down the barriers between a science too isolated and self-satisfied and a community too indifferent and unconscious of its own needs. No man could be more permeated than he was with a real reverence and enthusiasm for scientific work and achievement. His more intimate personal friendships were almost entirely with men of science, and his own work on the structure of flame was marked by keen insight and exceptional experimental ingenuity and skill.
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COBB, J. Prof. A. Smithells, C.M.G., F.R.S. Nature 143, 321–322 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143321a0
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