Arthur Smith Woodward
English paleontologist
Died when: 80 years 102 days (963 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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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.
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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