Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) 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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23 May 1864 Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Died |
2 September 1944 (aged 80)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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