FBA, FSA (10 May 1924 – 11 August 2001), also known as Teddy Hall, was a British scientist and balloonist who is best remembered for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.

In 1943, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) as an ordinary seaman, serving in landing craft transporting commandos to France.

[3] After the end of the Second World War, he entered New College, Oxford to study chemistry, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1948.

[4] In 1954, Hall became director of the newly founded Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA) at the University of Oxford.

He was influential in exposing the Piltdown Man fraud which led to his founding the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University.