John Derek Smith FRS (1924–2003) was a British molecular biologist who participated in many of the major discoveries at the LMB
* Born Southampton, England 8 December 1924
* Scientific staff, Agricultural Research Council Virus Research Unit, Cambridge 1945-59;
* Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge 1949-52;
* Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, University of California, Berkeley 1955-57;
* Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology 1959-62,
* Member of Scientific Staff, LMB, Cambridge 1962-88
* Sherman Fairchild Scholar 1974-75;
* Head, Subdivision of Biochemistry, Cell Biology Division 1976-88
* FRS 1976;