Smith, Alice Kimball

Historian, educator, and college administrator, Alice Kimball Smith (1907-2001) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, 1928 and Ph.D. from Yale University, 1936. She was married to Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian of technology in 1931. While her husband worked on the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, 1943-1946, Smith taught in the Los Alamos High School. Subsequently in Chicago Smith was assistant editor of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1946-1948, and lecturer in history at Roosevelt College. From 1962 to 1964, Smith was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, then assistant dean of the Institute, 1963-1970 and dean, 1970-1973. She also directed the Radcliffe Seminars, Radcliffe College, 1963-1970.

From the description of Papers of Alice Kimball Smith, 1961-1991 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 419884496

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