Phillip Valentine Tobias, South-African physical anthropologist (Durban 14 October 1925 – Johannesburg 07 June 2012)

Authored over 600 papers and 33 books

With J.R. Napier & L.S.B. Leakey described Homo habilis (1965)

Described Paranthropus boisei (1967)

HONORS

Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee for three times

Balzan Prize for Physical Anthropology (1987)

Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1997)