John Smith Flett

Sir John Smith Flett KBE FRS^[1] (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society^[1] in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917,^[2] 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.

References

^ ^a ^b Read, H. H. (1948). "John Smith Flett. 1869-1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 5 (16): 688–626. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0006. edit
^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33178. edit

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Name	Flett, John Smith
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Date of birth	26 June 1869
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Date of death	26 January 1947
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