| Honorific Suffix: | FRS(E) |
| Birth Name: | Elspeth Bruce Dunkerley |
| Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Elspeth Bruce Smith FRSE (1923 – 3 October 2017[1]), née Dunkerley, was a British academic and biochemist.
Smith was educated at Cambridge, London and Aberdeen.
During World War II she was employed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
In 1955 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1968 she became a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and was subsequently a Reader, then Honorary Research Fellow in Clinical Biochemistry there.[2]
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).