Harry Smith (botanist)

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| name = Harry Smith

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|9|19|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|2|9|1935|9|19|df=y}}

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| field = Botany

| alma_mater = {{Plainlist |

• University of Manchester
• University of Wales}}

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| academic_advisors = Arthur Galston

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• University of London
• University of Manchester
• University of Nottingham
• University of Leicester}}

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| known_for = Photomorphogenesis

| spouse = Elinor

| children = Siân, Caroline, Michael

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Harry Smith {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}{{cite journal|last1=Grierson|first1=Donald|authorlink=Don Grierson (geneticist)|title=Harry Smith. 19 September 1935—9 February 2015|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|year=2018|volume=64 |pages=387–399 |publisher=Royal Society|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2017.0045|doi-access=free}} (19 September 1935 – 9 February 2015) was a British botanist. Smith is best known for his discovery that phytochromes can detect changes in the colour that plants receive (e.g., because of shading from neighbouring plants), which allows them to adjust their growth rates accordingly.{{cite journal|last1=Rieseberg|first1=Loren|title=Professor Harry Smith (1935-2015)|journal=Molecular Ecology|volume=24|issue=10|year=2015|pages=2299–2300|issn=0962-1083|doi=10.1111/mec.13196|pmid=25912927 |doi-access=free}}

Smith was the founding editor of the academic journal Molecular Ecology, and its managing editor from 1992 to 2008. He was also the founding editor of the journals Molecular Ecology Resources, Global Change Biology, and Plant, Cell & Environment.

In 2000, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).