Record

Code	PX191
Dates	7 Apr 1911-2 Nov 1981
Person Name	Oakley; Kenneth Page (7 Apr 1911-2 Nov 1981); Dr; Museum Staff; Anthropologist
Surname	Oakley
Forenames	Kenneth Page
Title	Dr
Epithet	Museum Staff; Anthropologist
Activity	Studied at University College London 1930-1934, awarded 1st class honours degree in geology 1933; PhD thesis on Silurian pearl bearing Brozoa 1938; Married Edith Margaret Martin 1941 - they had 2 sons; received the Henry Stopes Memorial Medal for wotk on the prehistory of man in 1952; DSc in paleo-anthropology 1955; worked with Geological Survey as part of National Service, 1939-1945; Museum Staff: Appointed to the Museum's Geology Department 2nd class assistant 1935; 1st class assistant 1944; Special merit SPSO 1955; elected a Fellow of the British Academy 1957; elected a Fellow of UCL 1958; Deputy Keeper (anthropology) 1959; resigned through ill health because of multiple sclerosis in Aug 1969; died 1981 Oakley is famous for having played a key role in exposing the Piltdown man hoax. He refined the fluorine dating method and used it to demonstrate that Piltdown Man was a fake in 1953. His best-known book is 'Man the Tool-Maker,' first published 1949.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/PAL/100/171/20	Oakley, K P
DF/PUB/516/4/22	The Succession of Life Through Geological Time
DF/PAL/100/186/27	Roller, Otto
DF/PAL/116/17	Oakley, Kenneth: papers and correspondence
DF/PAL/140/9/18	Kenneth Oakley: correspondence
DF/PAL/123/3/1/5	Jefferies, Richard Peter Spencer: Correspondence with Kenneth Oakley
DF/PUB/516/1/4	Man the Tool-maker
DF/LIB/605/51	Oakley, Kenneth and Piltdown
DF/PUB/512/7/1	The Solution of the Piltdown Problem, by Wiener, J S; Oakley, K P and Le Gros Clark, W E
DF/PAL/109/12	'Man the Tool-maker' by Kenneth P Oakley: artwork, photographs, letters and memoranda
DF/PAL/109/7	'Succession of Life' by K P Oakley and H M Muir-Wood: notes and artwork by M Wilson and D E Woodall
DF/ENT/340/16/3	Oakley - Olsson
DF/PAL/140/4/2	Correspondence: F-W, 1933-1968
DF/PUB/516/4/28	The Succession of Life through Geological Time
DF/PUB/516/4/37	The Succession of Life Through Geological Time
DF/PAL/140/8/25	Kenneth Oakley: manuscript
DF/PH/2/5/1/15	Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department, Anthropology Staff
DF/PAL/109/38	Artwork and photographs for Piltdown articles in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology Series 2
DF/PAL/140/4/4	Correspondence of Kenneth Oakley regarding 'Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man'
DF/PH/2/5/1/1	Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PAL/140/4/1	Correspondence: A-D, 1928-1969
DF/PAL/140/4/9	Powers, Rosemary: painting of Neanderthal, Java, Peking and other prehistoric human types dressed in modern clothes in a railway carriage, prepared for K P Oakley
DF/MIN/1/78/1	Oakley, K P
DF/PAL/116	Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man
DF/TRU/906/3	Minutes of meetings of the Principal Trustees, with nomination and other papers
DF/PH/2/5/1/3	Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff
DF/PAL/140/9/247	Correspondence and papers relating to fossils in East Africa
DF/PAL/140/4/6	Photographs by Kenneth Oakley, 1950-1972
DF/PAL/140/11	Powers, Rosemary: Correspondence and Papers
DF/PAL/140	Anthropology Sub-Department Staff Correspondence and Papers
DF/PAL/141	Anthropology Sub-Department: Subject Files
DF/PAL/140/4	Oakley, Kenneth: Correspondence and Papers
DF/PAL/140/4/3	Correspondence of Kenneth Oakley, A-Z, 1968-1971
DF/PAL/140/4/5	Artwork and diagrams for 'Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man' by Kenneth Oakley
DF/PAL/140/8/14	London skull: correspondence with Kenneth Oakley and W L H Duckworth)
DF/PAL/141/138	Oakley, K P: bibliography and list of files
DF/ZOO/238/5/125	SF125 Dating bones
DF/ZOO/238/5/72	SF72 Fluorine analysis of bone
DF/PH/2/5/1/4	Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff

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