Hobart Muir Smith, born Frederick William Stouffer (September 26, 1912 – March 4, 2013),[1] was an American herpetologist.
[4] Although he published on a wide range of herpetological subjects, his main focus throughout his career was on the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico, including taxonomy, bibliographies, and history.
Smith attained his Bachelor of Science in 1932 from Kansas State University, under Howard K. Gloyd, and attained his masters (in 1933) and doctorate (in 1936) at the University of Kansas under Dr. Edward Harrison Taylor, where his thesis was a revision of the lizard genus Sceloporus.
In 1936-37 Smith was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he wrote The Mexican and Central American Lizards of the Genus Sceloporus (1939).
Born Frederick William Stouffer in 1912, he was adopted in 1916 by Charles and Frances Smith, farmers.