M. G. Smith
Jamaican social anthropologist and poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Garfield Smith OM was a Jamaican social anthropologist and poet of international repute. Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, M.G. Smith was always a brilliant scholar. When he was a schoolboy at Jamaica College, his schoolmates claimed him as their "intellectual hero." In 1939 at age seventeen, Smith achieved the highest marks of all Higher Schools Certificate candidates in the entire British Empire. More than a student scholar, he later emerged as a published poet of promise. His scholarly feats earned him the Jamaica Scholarship, which did not take him to Bombay as he had wished, but to Canada, where he went to study English literature at McGill University. Joining the Canadian army during the war, he served briefly on the frontline in Europe, in France, Holland and Germany. Demobilized in London in 1945, he turned from literature to law, which he studied for a year before his switch to anthropology. As his wife Mary reported, Smith found the law "an ass" and not, as he had hoped, about justice. He took to anthropology quickly and anthropology to him. Soon he became a prize student in Daryll Forde's department at University College London, completed his undergraduate work in short order, and after field research in Northern Nigeria, was awarded the PhD in 1951. He subsequently carried out extensive field research in Northern Nigeria, Jamaica, Grenada, and Carriacou. Smith served as the senior research fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research University of the West Indies ; professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles; senior research fellow, Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York City; Franklin M. Crosby Professor Emeritus, Human Environment at Yale University; and as professor and head of the Department of Anthropology, University College, London.
M. G. Smith's Published Works
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- Performance of the Aleph Detector At Lep (1995) (459)
- A LOW-COST METHOD OF ASSESSING CLAY DESICCATION FOR LOW-RISE BUILDINGS. (1992) (145)
- Recruitment processes in Haliotis rubra (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and regional hydrodynamics in southeastern Australia imply localized dispersal of larvae (1988) (137)
- A precise measurement of ΓZ→bb/ΓZ→hadrons (1993) (133)
- Heavy quark tagging with leptons in the ALEPH detector (1994) (66)
- Growth and morphometry in abalone (Haliotis rubra Leach) from Victoria (1988) (57)
- Measurement of the strong coupling constant using τ decays (1993) (57)
- Measurement of αs from scaling violations in fragmentation functions in e+e− annihilation (1995) (50)
- Measurement of the mass of the Z boson and the energy calibration of LEP (1993) (45)
- Measuring Abundance of Juvenile Abalone, Haliotis rubra Leach (Gastropoda : Haliotidae); Comparison of a Novel Method with Two Other Methods (1988) (45)
- Measurement of the B0 and B− meson lifetimes (1993) (44)
- Measurement of the effective b quark fragmentation function at the Z resonance (1995) (43)
- Search for CP violation in the decay Z ---> tau+ tau- (1995) (38)
- Production of excited beauty states in Z decays RID F-5127-2011 RID C-6238-2011 (1996) (33)
- Shell growth checks are unreliable indicators of age of the Abalone Haliotis rubra (Mollusca: Gastropoda) (1992) (31)
- Urban Goods Movement (1978) (30)
- Measurement of the B(S)O lifetime (1993) (30)
- Recruitment variation in sympatric populations of Haliotis rubra (Mollusca. Gastropoda) in southeast Australian waters (1991) (29)
- Measurements of the b baryon lifetime (1995) (29)
- AN UPPER LIMIT FOR THE TAU-NEUTRINO MASS FROM TAU-]5-PI(PI(0))NU(TAU) DECAYS (1995) (28)
- LIMIT ON B-S(0) OSCILLATION USING A JET CHARGE METHOD (1995) (28)
- Measurement of the branching ratio and an upper limit on (1995) (28)
- Study of the subjet structure of quark and gluon jets (1995) (28)
- Tau hadronic branching ratios (1996) (28)
- Production ofK0 and Λ in hadronic Z decays (1994) (25)
- Measurement of the Bs0 lifetime and production rate with Ds−ℓ+ combinations in Z decays (1995) (23)
- First measurement of the BS meson mass (1993) (22)
- Correlation measurements in Z→τ+τ− and the τ neutrino helicity (1994) (22)
- Measurement of the D∗± cross section in two photon collisions at LEP (1995) (21)
- Tau leptonic branching ratios (1996) (20)
- K0 production in one-prong τ decays (1994) (19)
- Inclusive production of neutral vector mesons in hadronic Z decays RID F-5127-2011 RID C-6238-2011 (1996) (19)
- Measurement of the ratio using event shape variables (1993) (18)
- A study of D*+π- production in semileptonic B decay (1995) (17)
- Search for particles with unexpected mass and charge in Z decays (1993) (17)
- The forward-backward asymmetry for charm quarks at the Z pole (1995) (16)
- ONE-PRONG TAU-DECAYS INTO CHARGED KAONS (1994) (15)
- Search for supersymmetric particles with R-parity violation in Z decays (1995) (15)
- Michel parameters and τ neutrino helicity from decay correlations in Z → τ+τ- (1995) (15)
- A measurement of AFBb in lifetime tagged heavy flavour Z decays (1994) (13)
- Test of the flavour independence of αs (1995) (10)
- A precise measurement of the average b hadron lifetime (1996) (10)
- A Measurement of the |V(cb)| from anti-B(0) --> D*+- lepton- anti-lepton-neutrino (1995) (8)
- Observation of Monojet Events and Tentative Interpretation (1994) (6)
- Search for high mass photon pairs in e+e- → ffγγ (f= e, μ, τ, v, q) at LEP (1993) (6)
- A Measurement of $|Vcb|$ from $\overline B^{0} \to D^{*} + l-\overline{\nu}_l$ (1995) (2)
- First measurement of the $B_S$ meson mass (1993) (1)
- PRODUCTION OF K(0) AND LAMBDA IN HADRONIC Z-DECAYS RID F-5127-2011 RID C-6238-2011 (1994) (1)
- Urban bus travel in Christchurch: An analytical approach (1983) (0)
- Central City Studies - the Hamilton Experience (1985) (0)
- QSO Q1232+134 AND THE MULTIPLE REDSHIFTS (1987) (0)
- Call for Investment in Urban Transportation Planning (1991) (0)
- North Shore Transport Planning (1989) (0)
- Manageable transportation studies (1981) (0)
- Hamilton transportation study review 1981 (1983) (0)
- Shopping centre modelling (1979) (0)
- A MEASURE VERTICAL-BAR-V-CB-VERTICAL-BAR FROM (B)OVER-BAR(0)-]D-ASTERISK+L-(NU)OVER-BAR(L) (1995) (0)
- Modelling techniques used in an English new route study (1976) (0)
- Table 1 ; Production of charmed mesons in Z decays (1994) (0)
- URBAN BUS TRAVEL IN CHRISTCHURCH (1984) (0)
- Urban State Highways (A Tilt at the Windmill) (1985) (0)
- Restoration of Waioeka Gorge highway after February 1967 flood (1970) (0)
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