# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-smith-woodward
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:55:40.515Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-smith-woodward"
name: "Arthur Smith Woodward"
slug: "arthur-smith-woodward"
description: "Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish. He also described the Piltdown Man fossils, which were later determined to be fraudulent. He is not related to Henry Woodward, whom he replaced as curator of the Geology Department of the British Museum of Natural History."
tagline: "English paleontologist (1864–1944)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1864-05-23"
deathDate: "1944-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump