Andrew Oddy

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William Andrew Oddy, OBE, FSA (born 6 January 1942) is a British conservator who was Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum. He is notable for his publications on artefact conservation and numismatics, and for the development of the Oddy test. In 1996 he was awarded the Forbes Prize "for outstanding work in the field of conservation" by the International Institute for Conservation, and gave the attendant Forbes Lecture that year in Copenhagen.^[1] He retired in 2002 and was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire the same year.^[2]