Arthur Smith Woodward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Smith Woodward

English paleontologist

Date of Birth: 23-May-1864

Place of Birth: Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1944

Profession: historian, paleontologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.