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William R. Smith: friend, engineer, scientist, mathematician, and university administrator
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Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications
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April 1, 2008
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- Henderson, Douglas; Nezbeda, Ivo
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This festschrift issue is dedicated to William (Bill) Smith, on the occasion of his 65th birthday on January 16 of this year.
Both editors of this issue have had a rewarding personal and scientific interaction with Bill for more than forty years and the following gives recollections of their interactions with him over the years and summarizes his scientific contributions.
Doug first met Bill during the winter of 1965-1966 when Bill came to the University of Waterloo to inquire about pursuing graduate studies in physics with him, bringing personal funding from a National Research Council of Canada (NRC) graduate scholarship. Bill was completing his MASc in Chemical Engineering at the ...