Happy Birthday, Willard!

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1960 for leading the team that developed radiocarbon dating process - carbon-14 - which revolutionized archeology by allowing us to finally know how old things were. Further refinements, using other elements (such as uranium-lead, for instance), have substantially increased our knowledge of the age of the world and the things in it.
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