Elspeth Smith

Elspeth Bruce Smith FRSE (1923 – 3 October 2017 ), née Dunkerley, was a British academic and biochemist.

Smith was educated at Cambridge, London and Aberdeen.

During World War II she was employed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

In 1955 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1968 she became a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and was subsequently a Reader, then Honorary Research Fellow in Clinical Biochemistry there.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).