Clement Andrew Smith (1901 – December 31, 1988) was an American pediatrician and the editor-in-chief of the journal ''

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''. Though he did not consider himself to be a neonatologist, much of his work concerned the care of the newborn infant. He was associated with

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for several decades and served a term as president of the

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Biography

Smith was born in

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. His father, Shirley Smith, had been a

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English professor and vice president. Smith attended the

, where he earned a master's degree in English and a medical degree. He joined

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as a physician in 1931. With his colleagues at Harvard, Smith conducted research on the

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in newborn babies to determine their oxygen requirements. Smith was the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Pediatrics'' for more than a decade. He was the 1965-66 president of the

. He received the society's highest honor, the John Howland Award, in 1976. The

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(AAP) Section on Perinatal Pediatrics gave him its first Virginia Apgar Award in 1975, recognizing his work with newborns. Smith was married to Margaret Earhart, who died in 1960. His second wife, Radcliffe College president

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