John Smith Flett

Sir John Smith Flett KBE FRS (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917,Peter A. Sabine, ‘Flett, Sir John Smith (1869–1947)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 made KBE in 1925 and won the Wollaston Medal in 1935.

In the mid 1970s, the then new, glass-faced structure built in the grounds of the South Kensington Museums complex between the Geological Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) containing a lecture theatre, was named in his honour.

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