Martin Hinton
{{Short description|British zoologist}}
{{For|South Australian Supreme Court justice|Martin Hinton (judge)}}
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| known_for = Work on Piltdown Man
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| awards = Fellow of the Royal Society{{Cite journal | last1 = Savage | first1 = R. J. G. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1963.0008 | title = Martin Alister Campbell Hinton 1883-1961 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 9 | pages = 155–170 | year = 1963 | doi-access = }}
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Martin Alister Campbell Hinton FRS (29 June 1883 – 3 October 1961) was a British zoologist.
Career
Hinton joined the staff of the Natural History Museum in 1910,{{cite journal|doi=10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00079.x | volume=139 | title=The Piltdown forgery: a re-statement of the case against Hinton | journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | pages=315–335 | last1 = Gardiner | first1 = Brian G.| year=2003 | issue=3 | doi-access=free }} working on mammals, in particular rodents. He became Deputy Keeper of Zoology in 1927 and Keeper in 1936, retiring in 1945.
Hinton is among those associated with the Piltdown Man hoax, a composite of an altered human skull and ape jawbone planted, and subsequently 'discovered', at a dig in Piltdown, England, and presented as a missing link between man and ape. A trunk belonging to Hinton left in storage at the Natural History Museum and found in 1970 contained animal bones and teeth carved and stained in a manner similar to the Piltdown finds, and raising questions about Hinton's involvement in the deception.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/03/piltdown_man/html/default.stm The Unmasking Of Piltdown Man] BBC News Web. Accessed 9 June 2008{{cite book
| title=The Piltdown Forgery: 50th Anniversary Edition
| first=J. S. |last=Weiner
|author2=Stringer, Chris
| date=20 November 2003 | publisher=Oxford University Press
| isbn=0-19-860780-6
| pages=196–197}}
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External links
- [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/piltdownMan/home.html Web pages and timeline about the Piltdown forgery hosted by the British Geological Survey]
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Category:Employees of the Natural History Museum, London
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:20th-century British zoologists
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