Radiocarbon dating at the British Museum -- the end of an era.(laboratory closed in 2001, United Kingdom)(Statistical Data Included)

From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Bowman, Sheridan | Copyright information

The origins of the British Museum's radiocarbon dating laboratory, which closed in 2001, can be traced back to 1948, the year before the first radiocarbon dates were published by Willard Libby and colleagues. To mark its passing, the history of the laboratory was excavated from the Museum's archives and is set within the context of the early days of Libby's research to develop the dating method in the late 1940s that led to him being awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1960. ...

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