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Arthur Smith Woodward

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English paleontologist (1864-1944)

United KingdomWritersLived 1864 to 1944 · aged 80
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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.

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Awards 10

1942Mary Clark Thompson Medal
1940Linnean Medal
1938Hayden Memorial Geological Award
1924Wollaston Medal
1917Royal Medal
1914Clarke Medal
1896Lyell Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
Fellow of the Geological Society of London

Connected to Arthur 6

Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinAlso won Hayden Memorial Geological AwardIan PlimerAlso won Clarke MedalJoseph TyrrellAlso won Wollaston MedalOtto BütschliAlso won Linnean MedalHenry Haversham Godwin-AustenAlso won Fellow of the Zoological Society of LondonLauge KochAlso won Mary Clark Thompson Medal

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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.

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1864 to 1944 · aged 80
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