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John was born on December 17, 1818 near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. His father, Benjamin Smith, born in Virginia, was a merchant of Charleston.
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John was born on December 17, 1818 near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. His father, Benjamin Smith, born in Virginia, was a merchant of Charleston.
Prepared in private schools and in the College of Charleston, he entered the University of Virginia in 1835 and for two years studied chemistry, natural philosophy, and civil engineering under John P. Emmet, W. B. Rogers, and Charles Bonnycastle.
Later he entered the Medical College of South Carolina, where in 1840 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. For several years after graduation he studied abroad.
After leaving the University, he was for a year an assistant engineer on the projected Charleston and Cincinnati railroad. In 1844 he returned to Charleston to establish himself as a medical practitioner and as a lecturer.
In January 1846, with Dr. S. D. Sinkler, he founded the Southern Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, which later became the Charleston Medical Journal and Review. Meanwhile he had published some researches on certain soils of South Carolina, which led to his selection by James Buchanan, then secretary of state, to go to Turkey in response to the request of the Turkish government for an adviser on cotton culture. In this capacity he sailed, but was soon appointed to investigate the mineral resources of the Empire, and spent three years thus engaged. He published several papers on his findings, notably "Memoir on Emery" in two parts (American Journal of Science, November 1850, January 1851). In the summer of 1850, while in Paris, Smith conceived the idea of the inverted microscope, which he later perfected.
By December 1850 he was back in the United States. For the next two years he lived in New Orleans, studying, and lecturing before a group of scientific students, and enjoying the titular professorship of chemistry in the University of Louisiana, an institution which then existed largely on paper.
Smith succeeded Robert E. Rogers in 1852 in capacity of a professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia. Here he and his assistant, George J. Brush, prepared their "Reexamination of American Minerals, " published as a series of papers in the American Journal of Science. His own means and his wife's now made him independent, and in 1853 he resigned his professorship.
He passed in Washington as the guest of his father-in-law, now secretary of the treasury. Here Smith spent his time working and lecturing in the Smithsonian Institution. In 1854 he succeeded Benjamin Silliman, Jr. , as professor of medical chemistry and toxicology in the University of Louisville, holding this chair until 1866.
Although he traveled frequently, visiting Europe many times, he made his home in Louisville until his death. During his years there, Smith was especially interested in meteorites. His collection of meteoric stones, one of the finest in America, was sold, just before his death, to Harvard University.
He was for a time president of the Louisville Gas Works, was associated with E. R. Squibb in a pharmaceutical laboratory. He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1872.
He died in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1879 he succeeded Sir Charles Lyell as corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France.
Although he was neither magnetic, charming, nor eloquent, and never a great teacher, he was a bold thinker and one of the ablest American chemists of his time.
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Benjamin Silliman the elder considered "Smith - the first noteworthy organic chemist in America" (Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, June 1906).
On June 24, 1852, he married Sarah Julia, daughter of James Guthrie of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. They had no children.