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Arthur Smith Woodward

1864 - 1944

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Smith Woodward is the 440th most popular historian (up from 464th in 2019), the 4,045th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,035th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 440 out of 561. Before him are Zdeněk Nejedlý, Abu Shama, Edward Duyker, Cyril Mango, G. M. Trevelyan, and Heinrich Ewald. After him are Carl Benjamin Boyer, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Mikheil Tsereteli, Nikolaus Pevsner, Donald Nicol, and Avi Shlaim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 148. Before him are Edwin Hedley, Willoughby Hamilton, Victor Bérard, Ludwig Schlesinger, Toros Toramanian, and Jakob Emanuel Lange. After him are Alice Tegnér, William S. Hart, Artur Văitoianu, Anna Golubkina, F. Holland Day, and Alberto Nepomuceno. Among people deceased in 1944, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 263. Before him are Pierre Brossolette, E. O. Plauen, Grace Chisholm Young, Chandramukhi Basu, Han Yong-un, and Charles Marion. After him are Tatyana Makarova, Rudolf Harbig, Charles Dana Gibson, Jean Prévost, Tatyana Baramzina, and Toni Merkens.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 4,046 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony D. Smith (1939), Bert Jansch (1943), Charles Blagden (1748), John Wilkinson (1728), John Byng (1704), and Edgar Syers (1863). After him are Ron Tauranac (1925), Chris Blackwell (1937), Brian Murphy (1932), Ben Nicholson (1894), Patrick Malahide (1945), and William Henry Smyth (1788).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 43. Before him are John Keegan (1934), George Finlay (1799), Francis Godwin (1562), Catharine Macaulay (1731), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), and G. M. Trevelyan (1876). After him are Donald Nicol (1923), Martin Gilbert (1936), Lawrence Stone (1919), David Marshall Lang (1924), Mary Beard (1955), and Stanley Morison (1889).

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