Phillip Vallentine Tobias FRS was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. Wikipedia
Born: October 14, 1925, Durban, South Africa
Died: June 7, 2012 (age 86 years), Johannesburg, South Africa
Notable student: Lee Berger
Award: Fellow of the Royal Society