Harold Hill Smith

Background

Smith, Harold Hill was born on April 24, 1910 in Arlington, New Jersey, United States. Son of Frederick Harold and Hilda Niles (Burgess) Smith.

Education

Born in Kearny, New Jersey, Smith graduated from Rutgers University and earned master"s and doctoral degrees in genetics at Harvard University.

Career

Assistant geneticist Department Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, 1935-1943. Associate professor, then professor genetics Cornell University, 1946-1956. Senior scientist International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 1958-1959.

Senior geneticist Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1956-1994. Adjunct professor New York University, 1977-1994. Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, University Buenos Aires, 1966.

Fulbright lecturer University Amsterdam, 1953.

Achievements

• Harold Hill Smith has been listed as a noteworthy Genetics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Evolution Genetic Systems: Bro (Evolution of Genetic Systems)

    (Book by Smith, H.)

Membership

Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Genetic Association (president 1976), Genetics Society of America, Botanical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, Tissue Culture Association, Society Developmental Biology, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Clubs: Shoreham Country, Harvard of L.I, Raritan.

Connections

Married Mary Downing, February 11, 1939. Children: Frederick, Lucy Smith Keane, Hilda Smith Hodges, Susan Smith Jurs.

Father:

Frederick Harold Smith

Mother:

Hilda Niles (Burgess) Smith

Spouse:

Mary Downing

child:

Susan Smith Jurs Smith

child:

Lucy Smith Keane Smith

child:

Frederick Smith

child:

Hilda Smith Hodges Smith