Herchel Smith was born in the UK at Plymouth and became an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1942, where he read for the Natural Sciences Tripos. This he completed with distinction. His research interests in organic chemistry were...
The Herchel Smith Fellowship recognizes truly exceptional PhD students pursuing research in the life sciences at Harvard. Incoming graduate students are recruited in collaboration with a HILS Ph.D. program. Each of the 13 Harvard life‑science PhD programs...