Kenneth Oakley
British scientist

Kenneth Oakley

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British scientist
Gender:
Male
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United KingdomGreat Britain
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ScientistPaleontologistAnthropologist
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BiologyScienceSocial science
Birth:
7 April 1911(Amersham, Amersham, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire)
Death:
2 November 1981
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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, was instrumental in the exposure in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax.

Oakley was born and died in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

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