Sir Arthur Smith Woodward was an English paleontologist born May 23, 1864, in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, who died September 2, 1944, in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, and who was recognized as a world expert in fossil fish, authoring the Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum between 1889 and 1901, conducting excavations at Pikermi near Athens in 1901, and describing the Piltdown Man remains in 1912, later revealed to be a fraud. He joined the Natural History Museum Geology Department in 1882, became Assistant Keeper of Geology in 1892 and Keeper of Geology in 1901, retiring from the museum in 1924, and served as president of the Geological Society in 1904 and president of the Linnean Society from 1919 to 1923. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901, won the Lyell Medal in 1896, the Clarke Medal in 1914, the Royal Medal in 1917, the Linnean Medal in 1940 and the Mary Clark Thompson Medal in 1942, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1924.
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Death PlaceHaywards Heath, Sussex, England 1 Notable WorkCatalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (1889-1901) 1 BirthplaceMacclesfield, Cheshire, England 1 In the Other Atlases
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
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Woodward died in Haywards Heath, Sussex, in 1944 at the age of 80
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He was the world expert on fossil fish, writing his Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (1889-1901)
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