Definition:Radiocarbon Dating/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Radiocarbon Dating
The technique of radiocarbon dating was devised by Willard Frank Libby.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in $1960$ for his work in dating archaeological objects.
He determined the half-life of carbon-14 to be approximately $5600$ years.
Hence he established that the measurable life age span using this test was from $1000$ to $30 \, 000$ years.
Sources
- 1963: Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard: Ordinary Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: Basic Concepts: Lesson $1$: How Differential Equations Originate
- 1972: George F. Simmons: Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): $1$: The Nature of Differential Equations: $\S 4$: Growth, Decay and Chemical Reactions