MadSci Network: Science History
Query:

Re: Around about what time was radioactive dating invented.

Date: Sat Apr 3 07:05:44 1999
Posted By: Eric Maass, Operations Manager, semiconductors / communication products
Area of science: Science History
ID: 919179227.Sh
Message:

William Libby developed the carbon-14 dating method in 1947, and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. For more information on carbon-14 dating, please click here ; for a table listing the radioisotypes involved in radioactive dating today, and their useful dating range, click here


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