# Henry DeWolf Smyth

> American physicist and diplomat (1898–1986)

**Wikidata**: [Q451199](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451199)  
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## Summary

Henry DeWolf Smyth was born on May 1, 1898 in Clinton[1][2][3][4][5] and died of myocardial infarction on September 11, 1986 in Princeton[1][2][3][6]. A United States citizen[7], he worked as a physicist, diplomat, nuclear physicist, and university teacher[1], and spent his career as an employee of Princeton University[5].He was educated at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Gonville and Caius College[5], and his professional field was physics. His honors included the Atoms for Peace Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society[5].He held membership in the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the American Philosophical Society.


## References

1. Atomic Heritage Foundation Profiles
2. Guggenheim Fellows database
3. Freebase Data Dumps
4. Integrated Authority File
5. LIBRIS. 2018
6. Mathematics Genealogy Project
7. CiNii Research
8. Virtual International Authority File
9. SNAC
10. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum