Leonard Woolley
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Sir Leonard Woolley, Charles Leonard Woolley, Lieut. Col. Sir [Charles] Leonard Woolley, Woolley, C. Leonard, Charles Leonard Woolley .
British archaeologist (1880–1960)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1880-04-17
- Died
- 1960-02-20
- Works
- 106
Top works
- Prehistory and the beginnings of civilization
- HISTORY OF MANKIND - CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT VOLUME ONE - PREHISTORY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
- The Sumerians
- Dead towns and living men
- Digging Up the Past
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,648x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,610x
- The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,539x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
- Finding Groups in Data
· 1990 · cited 6,073x
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Key facts
- Born
- Charles Leonard Woolley , ( 1880-04-17 ) 17 April 1880, Clapton , London , England
- Died
- 20 February 1960 (1960-02-20) (aged 79), London, England
- Alma mater
- New College, Oxford
- Known for
- excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia
- Spouse
- Katharine Woolley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 11 April 1927</span>"}]]}'>1927 ; died 8 November 1945</span>"}]]}'>1945 )
- Fields
- Archaeology ; military intelligence
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is recognized as one of the first "modern" archaeologists who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient life and history. Woolley was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology. He was married to the British archaeologist Katharine Woolley.
Early life
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