Keith Smith

Keith Smith FRSC FLSW (born 15 January 1947) is an academic and British organic chemist.

Life Smith was born on 15 January 1947 in Walsall, England but grew up in Brown Edge, North Staffordshire. He attended the Leek High School, before gaining a scholarship to study Chemistry at Manchester University where he went on to achieve a BSc with First Class Honors in 1968. Smith received an MSc in 1969 and a PhD in 1971 in the field of boron chemistry working under the supervision of Dr Andrew Pelter. In August 1968, Smith married Lynn who he met during his time at high school.

Career Smith received a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship to take up a postdoctoral research position with Professor Albert Eschenmoser at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2007, Smith moved to Cardiff University as Professor of Organic Chemistry until his formal retirement in 2013.