John Smith Flett

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Sir John Smith Flett KBE FRS (26 June 1869 - 26 January 1947) was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917,[1] made KBE in 1925 and won the Wollaston Medal in 1935.

In the mid 1970s, the then new, glass-faced structure built in the grounds of the South Kensington Museums complex between the Geological Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) containing a lecture theatre, was named in his honour.

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  1. ^ Peter A. Sabine, ‘Flett, Sir John Smith (1869–1947)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 Nov 2007
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