February 27, 1940-Carbon 14 dates the world
(WHTM) — On this day in 1940 two scientists would isolate an atom that would revolutionize our studies of life on Earth. Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben were chemists at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. They were looking for an isotope of carbon, using a device called a cyclotron accelerator, which […]
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