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A physicist at the University of Chicago, Inghram pioneered the application of mass spectrometers to determine nuclear constants, which led to the discovery of new isotopes. What does that mean to you? Working with Willard Libby, Inghram was able to calculate the half-life of carbon-14, which Libby used to develop his "carbon dating" technique. Inghram was also able to help prove that meteorites were about 4.5 billion years old, which helped refine the age of the earth to around the same era. Caltech's Gerald Wasserburg says mass spectrometers "were [Inghram's] favorite shovels for excavating new areas. His instruments were the vehicles for which whole new fields of science were created and explored." Inghram died at home in Michigan September 29. He was 83. From This is True for 28 September 2003 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Anatoly Fomenko List Price: $23.45 Amazon Price: $23.45 Editorial Review: `History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2` is the second volume of the most explosive and astounding tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by rock solid scientific data. The book is easy and pleasant to read; it is well-illustrated, contains hundreds of charts, graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays. You will be amazed to discover: - That the chronology universally accepted today and taken for granted is simply wrong; - That ALL methods of dating of ancient sources and artefacts known today are erroneous or non-exact; - That there is not a single document that could be reliably dated earlier than the XIth century; The Author refers to the Middle Ages as the ?Antiquity? and proves mutual superimposition of the Second and the Third Roman Empire, both of which become identified as the respective kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Furthermore, he asserts that the famous reform of the Occidental Church in the XI century by ?Pope Gregory Hildebrand? was the reflection of the XII century reforms of Byzantine emperor Andronicus who in his turn identifies with Jesus Christ. The Trojan war counted by Homer happened only as late as of the XIII century A.D. and the great poet actually lived in XIV century A.D. No stone in history of Antiquity is left unturned. Literally. This book is the beginning of a major correction to the chronology we live with.  By: David D. Moon List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $19.95 Editorial Review: For the non-scientist and those trained in the physical sciences, this book presents a new hypothesis of Earth\'s element transmutations and the consequential alteration of dating earth material by radioactive elements.  By: Harry E Gove List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $35.00 Editorial Review: Interest in the Turin Shroud continues to the present day even though it was finally carbon dated in 1988 and shown not to be of an age consistent with Christ's burial. Scientifically, the age of the shroud cloth is of little consequence, but to the general public, it is of considerable significance. The author Harry E. Gove is a co-inventor of accelerator mass spectrometry and was responsible for its use in establishing whether the Turin Shroud could have been Christ's burial cloth. Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud presents an eyewitness account of the events that culminated in the final determination of the age of the linen cloth of the Turin Shroud and some of the subsequent reactions to the results. The book discusses the application of accelerator mass spectrometry to the carbon dating of the Turin Shroud using samples only a few square centimeters in area and weighing only a few tens of milligrams.  By: M.S. CopleyR. BerstanS.N. DuddV. StrakerPa List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Editorial Review: This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Archaeological Science, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: The evidence for dairying in antiquity has, until recently, primarily been restricted to the reconstruction of herd structures through the analysis of faunal remains. Using this method alone cannot provide definitive evidence for the presence of dairy herds, due to differences in the recovery of animal bones at sites and the many different farming strategies that can affect herd structures (e.g. dairying, meat production, traction etc.). Absorbed lipid residues have been extracted from 237 pottery vessels from the British Iron Age sites of Maiden Castle, Danebury Hillfort, Yarnton Cresswell Field and Stanwick. The compound-specific stable carbon isotope (@d^1^3C values) of the principal fatty acids found in animal fats (C"1"6":"0 and C"1"8":"0) have allowed the direct detection of dairy fats, thus providing evidence that dairying was an important component of farming practices in the British Iron Age. The results are compared to assessments of the faunal remains at each of the sites, and correlations between morphological characteristics of the vessels (e.g. type, form, use wear and rim diameter) and lipid residue discussed. By: M.S. CopleyR. BerstanV. StrakerS. PayneEve List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Editorial Review: This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Archaeological Science, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Molecular and isotopic analyses were undertaken of absorbed lipid residues from 256 pottery vessels obtained from four southern British Bronze Age sites (Potterne, Brean Down, Black Patch and Trethellan Farm). The results confirm that not only were Ancient Britons utilising dairy products during this period, but also that they were processed in pottery vessels on a large scale. This has been demonstrated through the determination of the compound-specific stable isotope values of the principal fatty acids found in animal fats (C"1"6":"0 and C"1"8":"0) that allows ruminant dairy and ruminant/non-ruminant adipose fats to be distinguished. The proportion of sherds yielding degraded dairy fats at each of the sites is variable, with the highest occurrence being from Potterne, and the lowest occurrence being from Black Patch. The faunal remains, and vessel characteristics (e.g. rim diameter and vessel type) are compared with the organic residue analyses, and intra-site variability is investigated at Trethellan Farm. |
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