James Leonard Brierley Smith, known more commonly as "J. L. B. Smith", (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968), was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.
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1897 Graaff-Reinet
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1968 (aged 70) Grahamstown
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