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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/earth-sciences/fossil-vertebrates/fossil-vertebrate-research/fishes/woodward150/biography/index.html )〕 ==Biography== Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of Geology in 1892, and Keeper in 1901. He was appointed Secretary of the Palaeontographical Society and in 1904, was appointed President of the Geological Society. He was elected in June 1901 a Fellow of the Royal Society 〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Catalogue )〕 He was the world expert on fossil fish, writing his ''Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum'' (1889–1901). His travels included journeys to South America and Greece. In 1901, for the trustees of the Natural History Museum, he made excavations of fossil bones from Pikermi (near Athens). His contribution to palaeoichthyology resulted in him receiving many awards, including a Royal Medal from the Royal Society in 1917, the Lyell and Wollaston Medals of the Geological Society, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society and the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1914. He retired from the museum in 1924. In 1942 Woodward was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson )〕 Woodward's reputation suffered from his involvement in the Piltdown Man hoax where he gave a name to a new species of hominid from southern England, which was ultimately discovered (after Woodward's death) to have been a forgery.〔Miles Russell. (2004). ''Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson''. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2572-2〕 Woodward was a leading advocate of orthogenesis. He believed there was a general trend in evolution from the fossil record and speculated that the human brain might have been the product of such a trend. He discussed his views on human evolution in his book ''The Earliest Englishman'' (1948).〔Peter J. Bowler. (1986). ''Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate 1844-1944''. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 199-200〕 He married Maud Leanora Ida Seeley, the daughter of zoologist Harry Govier Seeley, in 1894. Woodward died in Haywards Heath, Sussex in 1944 at the age of 80.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Smith Woodward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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