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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 60,635 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Arthur Smith Woodward is the 404th most popular historian (down from 312th in 2019), the 4,081st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,900th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 404 out of 339. Before him are Timothy Garton Ash, Charles A. Beard, Minhaj-i-Siraj, Kenneth Clark, Alfred W. Crosby, and Hermann Oldenberg. After him are Florian Cajori, Christopher Browning, Robert Service, Carroll Quigley, Donald Nicol, and Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 143. Before him are Stanley Maude, Alice Davenport, Willoughby Hamilton, Reginald Dyer, Tully Marshall, and Alfred John Keene. After him are Anna Golubkina, George Hillyard, George Nichols, Elinor Glyn, Edwin Hedley, and Alexandre Levy. Among people deceased in 1944, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 248. Before him are Lev Shcherba, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Charles Dana Gibson, Octav Băncilă, Endre Steiner, and Frank Knox. After him are Shigeo Arai, George Herriman, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Karel Hartmann, John Dill, and Katri Vala.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 4,081 out of 7,765. Before him are Bill Paterson (1945), Vivian Campbell (1962), Luke Goss (1968), John Taylor (1960), Stephen Moyer (1969), and Richard Eyre (1943). After him are Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), Benjamin Vulliamy (1747), Saffron Burrows (1972), Roger Ascham (1515), Archie Panjabi (1972), and Andy Mackay (1946).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Smith Woodward ranks 47. Before him are Richard J. Evans (1947), Simon Schama (1945), Agnes Arber (1879), George Grote (1794), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), and Kenneth Clark (1903). After him are Robert Service (1947), Donald Nicol (1923), William of Newburgh (1130), Orlando Figes (1959), Lawrence Stone (1919), and Richard Overy (1947).

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