Jeffrey Henderson Smith is a former professor of

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. He received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1981, under the supervision of

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, and was promoted to full professor at Purdue in 1999. His primary research interest is

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; his best-cited workGoogle scholar
accessed 2010-01-23. consists of two papers in the ''

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'' on "nilpotence and stable homotopy".

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