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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.
Arthur Smith Woodward (Macclesfield, Cheshire, 23 de maio de 1864 — Haywards Heath, 2 de setembro de 1944) foi um paleontólogo inglês. Foi implicado na fraude do caso Homem de Piltdown. Foi laureado com a medalha Lyell em 1896 e a medalha Wollaston em 1924, [1] ambas pela Sociedade Geológica de Londres.
Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944) was acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on fossil fishes during his lifetime and made important contributions to the entire field of vertebrate palaeontology.
1 de jan. de 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
Piltdown man controversy. 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.
3 de ago. de 2016 · Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Paleontology. by Zerina Johanson, Paul M. Barrett, Martha Richter, and Mike Smith (editors), 2016. The Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 430, London, 362 pp. US$160 (£110, societies: £66), hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-86239-741-5.
28 de out. de 2015 · Eighteen-year-old Arthur Woodward (1864–1944) joined the museum in 1882, was ordered to change his name and was catapulted into vertebrate palaeontology, beginning work on Australian fossils in 1888.
