biography
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Smith, Sir Sydney Alfred
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1969)
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| biography:
| Forensic medical expert, born in Roxburgh, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria College, Wellington, and Edinburgh University, was medical officer of health for New Zealand, professor of forensic medicine at Cairo, and from 1917 principal medico-legal expert for the Egyptian government. He later became professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh (1928–53) and dean of the medical faculty from 1931, playing a foremost part in the medical and ballistic aspects of crime detection. |
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