A message from Dr. Charles Fuller:

Dr. Arthur H. “Milt” Smith, one of the three founding faculty members of the Department of Animal Physiology (one of the departments from which NPB was created), passed away yesterday (Oct. 22) at the age of 91.  He died peacefully at home in the company of his wife, Rachel, of 68 years.  

As a student of Max Kleiber, Milt received his doctoral degree in comparative physiology in 1948 from the University of California, Davis.  From 1948 to 1950, he held a National Research Council – Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship at the Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.  From 1950 to 1963, he rose in the academic ranks from Instructor to Professor in the Department of Poultry Husbandry at the University of California, Davis (UCD).  From 1964 to 1986, he was a Professor in the Department of Animal Physiology.  In 1986 he became Professor Emeritus continuing to be active in research, teaching, and in the international community of gravitational physiology.  

He was a member and an elected Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association.  He was also one of the first physiologists to become board-certified in Aerospace Physiology in a certification program that he was instrumental in developing for the Aerospace Medical Association.