From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

Author
Harry E. Gove
Publisher
CRC Press
Language
English
Year
1999
Page
248
ISBN
9780750305587,9780750305570
File Type
pdf
File Size
88.3 MiB

From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry presents a fascinating account of a breakthrough in science and the insights it has brought that would not have been possible without it. Involved since its invention, Harry Gove recounts the story of the development of accelerator mass spectrometry and its use as an ultrasensitive detection technique in many fields of science and the arts. A key advantage of the technique is that it requires only very small samples of material. The book explores the areas where the technique has increased understanding and provided solutions to problems, including the clean-up and storage of nuclear waste, the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, biomedical research, the settling of the Americas, and carbon dating of many precious artifacts. Objects dated include the Turin Shroud, the Iceman, the elephant bird egg, and the Dead Sea scrolls.

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