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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Smith Woodward has received more than 65,456 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Arthur Smith Woodward is the 464th most popular historian (down from 404th in 2019), the 4,034th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,073rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Historian.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 464 out of 561. Before him are Miguel León-Portilla, Richard J. Evans, Simon Janashia, Ji Xianlin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, and William Robertson. After him are Hermann Oldenberg, Charles A. Beard, Benjamin Mazar, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, and Timofey Granovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 156. Before him are Elinor Glyn, Anna Haava, Alexandre Levy, Toros Toramanian, Miina Härma, and Reginald Dyer. After him are Emil Kellenberger, Alice Tegnér, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Jakob Emanuel Lange, George Hillyard, and Tully Marshall. Among people deceased in 1944, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 269. Before him are Tatyana Makarova, Charles Dana Gibson, Mary Adela Blagg, Aimee Semple McPherson, Karel Hartmann, and Frank Knox. After him are Abdulla Aliş, Grace Chisholm Young, Jean Prévost, Kang Kyeong-ae, George Clausen, and Georg Dascher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 4,034 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur St. Clair (1737), Harry Stafford (1869), Jason Orange (1970), Alistair Overeem (1980), Douglas Slocombe (1913), and George Nares (1831). After him are Dave Mackay (1934), Jonathan Sacks (1948), Constance Collier (1878), M.I.A. (1975), John Pritchard (1921), and Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 50. Before him are Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), David Marshall Lang (1924), Donald Nicol (1923), Richard J. Evans (1947), and William Robertson (1721). After him are Catharine Macaulay (1731), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), William of Newburgh (1130), Richard Overy (1947), Kenneth Clark (1903), and Henry James Sumner Maine (1822).

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