caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality name field birth_date known_for prizes article_title birth_name
kenneth oakley 2 november 1981 amersham amersham , buckinghamshire 150px english kenneth oakley physical anthropologist 7 april 1911 relative dating of fossils by fluorine content prestwich medal -lrb- 1963 -rrb- kenneth oakley
 kenneth page oakley
kenneth oakley

kenneth page oakley -lrb- 7 april 1911 -- 2 november 1981 -rrb- 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 .
