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Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS [1] (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 ...
Arthur Smith Woodward never visited Australia, but as the paper by Turner & Long (2015) (‘The Woodward factor: Arthur Smith Woodward's legacy to geology in Australia and Antarctica’) shows, he had a major influence on the scientific development of the region and left a lasting legacy to the country. With no trained vertebrate ...
Jan 1, 2016 · Arthur Smith Woodward was the Natural History Museum’s longest-serving Keeper of Geology and the world’s leading expert on fossil fish. He was also an unwitting victim of the Piltdown fraud, which overshadowed his important scientific contributions.
- Z. Johanson, P. M. Barrett, M. Richter, M. Smith
- 2016
Other articles where Arthur Smith Woodward is discussed: Piltdown man: Dawson took the specimens to Arthur Smith Woodward, keeper of the British Museum’s paleontology department, who announced the find at a meeting of the Geological Society of London on December 18, 1912. Woodward claimed that the fossils represented a previously unknown species of extinct hominin (Eoanthropus dawsoni) that ...
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 ...
Oct 20, 2015 · Arthur Smith Woodward commanded international respect and acclaim. He was honoured in scientific circles from Russia to the Americas and throughout Europe, particularly for his outstanding work on fossil fish. He was distinguished in both his exceptional abilities as a vertebrate palaeontologist and in his tall, authoritative presence.
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Sir Arthur Smith Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of Geology in 1892, and Keeper in 1901. He was appointed Secretary of the Palaeontographical Society and in 1904 ...
