Author

Arthur Smith Woodward

1864 - 1944

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed:  English
occupation:  paleontologist, historian, admiral
award received:  Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal medal, Lyell Medal, Clarke Medal, Linnean Medal, Hayden Memorial Geological Award, Mary Clark Thompson Medal, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Wollaston Medal
position held:  President of the Geological Society of London, President of the Linnean Society of London

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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