E.E. Doc Smith

E.E. Doc Smith (Edward Elmer Smith) was an American science fiction writer, born on May 2, 1890, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He earned the nickname “Doc” after receiving a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from George Washington University, and he worked for much of his life as a food scientist specializing in doughnut flour before gaining fame as a pioneering science fiction author. Smith began writing in the 1910s, but hi...