MSU Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies

* Edgar Fahs Smith

1854-1928

 

Portrait: 113
Location - Floor: First - Zone: Room 138 - Wall: South - Sequence: 5
Source: Kedzie Collection
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Edgar Fahs Smith
 

Smith did research on electrochemical methods of analysis, atomic weight determinations, complex inorganic acids, and the rare earths. He is best known, however, as a chemical educator and textbook writer, and for his intense interest in the history of chemistry. His collection of portraits, letters and other chemical memorabilia at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor for many years, is internationally renowned.