{{Short description|British mycologist and botanist (1895–1967)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = George Smith | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1895|12|15}} | birth_place = Great Harwood | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1967|03|29|1895|12|15}} | death_place = | field = Mycology | known_for = Contributions to taxonomy of molds and mildews | author_abbreviation_bot = A.Sm. }} '''George Smith''' (15 December 1895 – 29 March 1967) was a British mycologist. Born in Great Harwood (Lancashire, England), he graduated from the University of Manchester in 1916 with first-class honours, and received his Master's degree in chemistry two years later. After starting a laboratory with the textile manufacturing company Boardman and Baron Ltd. in 1919, he began to study the mildew and moulds that grew on goods made from cotton.<ref name="Onions 1967"/>
Smith began employment as a research assistant to Harold Raistrick<ref name="Onions 1967"/> in 1930 with the Biochemistry Department of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,<ref>{{cite book|editor=Desmond, Ray|chapter=Smith, George|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA636| page=636 |isbn=9780850668438 | title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers | date=25 February 1994 | publisher=CRC Press }}</ref> and worked there until his retirement in 1961. He is known for his monographs on the fungal genera ''Paecilomyces'' and ''Scopulariopsis''. Smith also wrote a popular textbook, ''Introduction to Industrial Mycology'', first published in 1939, that was reprinted six times. Smith was the President of the British Mycological Society in 1945, and its foray secretary in 1947 and in 1951–52.<ref name="Ainsworth 1968"/>
==Selected publications== ===Articles=== * {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(44)80003-1|title=Some methods for the study of moulds |year=1944 |last1=Fleming |first1=Alexander |author-link=Alexander Fleming |last2=Smith |first2=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=27 |issue=1–2 |pages=13–19 }} * {{cite journal|jstor=43421531|title=Recent Progress in Industrial Mycology |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Science Progress (1933- ) |year=1946 |volume=34 |issue=136 |pages=670–680 |pmid=21001963 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(51)80024-X|title=Some new species of moulds and some new British records |year=1951 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=34 |pages=17–IN3 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(56)80059-4|title=Some new species of soil moulds |year=1956 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=39 |pages=111–114 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(57)80054-0|title=Some new and interesting species of micro-fungi |year=1957 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=481–448 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(61)80005-3|title=Some new and interesting species of micro-fungi. II |year=1961 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=44 |issue=1|pages=42–50 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(61)80037-5|title=''Polypaecilum'' gen.nov. |year=1961 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=437–440 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(62)80077-1|title=Some new and interesting species of micro-fungi. III |year=1962 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=387–394 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(63)80024-8|title=Some new species of Penicillium, and some observations on the taxonomy of the genus |year=1963 |last1=Smith |first1=George |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=331–337 }}
===Books and monographs=== * {{cite book|author=Smith, George|title=Introduction to industrial mycology|postscript=; foreword by Harold Raistrick; xii+302 pages including plates|location=London|publisher=E. Arnold & Co., Ltd.|year=1938|edition=1st|lccn=agr39000553|oclc=4092001}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=mini-review of ''An Introduction to Industrial Mycology'' by George Smith with a foreword by Harold Raistrick|journal=Soil Science|volume=48|issue=4|page=357|date=October 1939|url=https://journals.lww.com/soilsci/citation/1939/10000/an_introduction_to_industrial_mycology.27.aspx}}</ref> ** {{cite book|year=1942|title=2nd edition}} {{cite book|title=3rd edition|year=1946}} ** {{cite book|year=1954|title=4th edition|lccn=54003634|postscript=; xiv+378 pages}} ** {{cite book|year=1960|title=5th edition|lccn= 60003046}} ** {{cite book|location=New York|publisher=Wiley|year=1981|title=6th edition|isbn=0713122080|lccn=72397577|postscript=; ix+390 pages}} *{{cite journal |author1=Brown, A.H.S. |author2=Smith, G.S. |year=1957 |title=The genus ''Paecilomyces'' Bainier and its perfect stage ''Byssochlamys'' Westling |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=17–89 |doi=10.1016/s0007-1536(57)80066-7}} *{{cite journal |author1=Morton, F.J. |author2=Smith, G. |year=1963 |title=The genera ''Scopulariopsis'' Bainier, ''Microascus'' Zukal, and ''Doratomyces'' Corda |journal=Mycological Papers |volume=86 |pages=1–99}}
==Taxa described== *''Aspergillus brevipes'' (1952) *''Aspergillus parrulus'' (1961) *''Aspergillus restrictus'' (1931) *''Phialophora calyciformis'' (1962) *''Polypaecilum'' (1961)
{{botanist|G.Sm.}}
==See also== *List of mycologists
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Ainsworth 1968">{{cite journal |author=Ainsworth GC. |title=George Smith (1895–1967) |journal=Mycologia |year=1968 |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=991–993 |doi=10.1080/00275514.1968.12018663 |jstor=3757287 |pmid=4882635 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0060/005/0991.htm|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
<ref name="Onions 1967">{{cite journal |author=Onions AHS. |title=George Smith, 1895–1967 |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |year=1967 |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=339–40 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59351/0050/003/0339.htm |doi=10.1016/s0007-1536(67)80001-9|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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