Carbon Dating

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  • Early Discovery

    Early Discovery
    Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy came up with the idea of isotopes.

  • Carbon-14 Isotope

    Carbon-14 Isotope
    The Carbon-14 isotope gets discovered by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben.

  • Carbon Dating Start

    Carbon Dating Start
    Willard Libby created the first method of Carbon Dating at the University of Chicago.

  • Newspaper

    Newspaper
    Willard Libby and J. Arnold created a newspaper to let the people know about Carbon Dating.

  • Tests

    Tests
    They decided to test materials of known-age in the Mediteranean and the tests weren't correct.

  • Add Fuel

    Add Fuel
    Instead of using solid carbon, they replaced it with gas.

  • Temperature

    Temperature
    Hesse de Vries noticed that the Carbon-14 changes due to the temperature.

  • Victory

    Victory
    Libby won a Noble Prize for his discovery.

  • Closer to Perfection

    The dating age limit was changed to a more accurate date of 50,000 years