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Scientific discovery rarely follows a smooth and orderly course. Like most natural processes it proceeds spasmodically, and important results frequently come only after long-drawn-out, exhausting, and apparently fruitless endeavor, sometimes even almost by what appears to be a lucky chance.

J. L. B. Smith

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J. L. B. Smith

J. L. B. Smith

Born: October 26, 1897
Died: January 7, 1968 (aged 70)
Bio: James Leonard Brierley Smith, known as J. L. B. Smith, was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought long extinct.
Known for:
  1. Smith's Sea fishes (1965)
  2. Food for Hungry Souls (1850)
  3. Christ Is All!

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