Elspeth Smith


Elspeth Bruce Smith FRS, née Dunkerley, was a British academic and biochemist.
Smith was educated at Cambridge, London and Aberdeen.
During World War II she was employed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
In 1955 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1968 she became a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and was subsequently a Reader, then Honorary Research Fellow in Clinical Biochemistry there.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.