Kenneth Oakley
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| Kenneth Oakley | |
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 Kenneth Oakley |
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| Born | 7 April 1911 Amersham, Buckinghamshire |
| Died | 2 November 1981 Amersham |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | physical anthropologist |
| Known for | relative dating of fossils by fluorine content |
Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist.
Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content,[1][2] was instrumental in the exposure[3] in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax.
Oakley was born and died in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
[edit] Publications
- Piltdown man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
- Man the Tool-Maker, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 1949, 6th edition 1972
- The succession of life through geological time, British Museum, 1967
- Frameworks for dating fossil man, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 3rd ed, 1969
- Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Africa, British Museum, 1977
- Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Americas, Asia, Australia, Smithsonian Institution Proceedings, 1981
- Relative dating of the fossil hominids of Europe, British Museum, 1980
[edit] References
- ^ "Kenneth Oakley" (html). Encyclopædia Britannica online. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9056605/Kenneth-Oakley.
- ^ Devon Lippincott. "Kenneth Page Oakley" (html). Minnesota State University, Mankato EMuseum. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/oakley_kenneth.html.
- ^ Sarah Lyall (25 May 1996). "Piltdown Man Hoaxer: Missing Link Is Found" (html). The New York Times. http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/map_prim_suspects/HINTON/Hinton_Prosecution/pilt_hoax_found.html.
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