Practice question · Estimate
Willard Libby demonstrated radiocarbon dating, revolutionizing prehistory overnight, in which year? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 1900 to 2000.
Hints
- Just after the Second World War.
- The Nobel Prize followed in 1960.
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1949 (answers within ±7 count)
Why
- Before Libby, prehistoric chronologies were educated guesswork chained to Egypt; after him, every once-living thing carried its own clock.
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