John Smith Flett

John Smith Flett

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, [Peter A. Sabine, ‘Flett, Sir John Smith (1869–1947)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33178 accessed 15 Nov 2007] ] 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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* [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/cgi-bin/deadsearch.cgi?format=full&bool=and&numreq=1&fieldcont1=Papers+of+Sir+John+Smith+Flett&fieldidx1=title_NOTRUNC&noframes=on&serverid=VSPOKES-ead-edinburghspokecopy Description of the papers of Sir John Smith Flett]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1479-571X%28194805%295%3A16%3C688%3AJSF1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]

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