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Michael SMYTH Obituary
SMYTH Dr Michael Jessop (Observatory Road / Blackford Hill)
Peacefully, at St Margaret's Care Home, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. Michael, beloved husband of the late Mary, dear father of Patrick and Timothy, father-in-law and friend to Victoria and Marian. Formerly Senior Lecturer, Dept of Astronomy, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. Funeral service at Mortonhall Crematorium, Pentland Chapel, on Friday, October 13, at 2.30 pm, to which all family and friends are welcome. Family flowers only, please.
Peacefully, at St Margaret's Care Home, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. Michael, beloved husband of the late Mary, dear father of Patrick and Timothy, father-in-law and friend to Victoria and Marian. Formerly Senior Lecturer, Dept of Astronomy, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. Funeral service at Mortonhall Crematorium, Pentland Chapel, on Friday, October 13, at 2.30 pm, to which all family and friends are welcome. Family flowers only, please.
Published by The Scotsman on Oct. 9, 2017.
Memories and Condolences
for Michael SMYTH
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Climbing Schiehallion, May 14th 1988.
Duncan Potter
November 15, 2017
"Time-division multiplexing" - and similar astrophysical-technology expressions which rolled off the tongue, are surely an unforgettable hallmark of Dr Smyth, as we referred to him. A polite, highly intelligent gentleman who taught in the undergraduate astrophysics degree in the early 1980s.
Telling us undergraduates tales of "Kavalur, near Bangalore", I could never remember the story itself, mesmerized with his wonderful way of saying those words which ring in my ears even 30 years later.
Smyths on Schiehallion
Winifred Sillitto
October 10, 2017
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