Carbon Dating

By kelsey&rachel
  • Carbon was discovered

    Carbon was discovered

    In the year 1772. Antoine Lavoisier had discovered the Carbon atom. Without the discovery of the Carbon atom there would be no Carbon-14 isoptope to be found.
  • The discovery of radioactive decay

    The discovery of radioactive decay

    Men by the names of Ernest Rutherford Frederick Soddy had discovered the idea that there is something called radioactive decay of objects.
  • The Discovery of the Isotope

    The Discovery of the Isotope

    In the year 1912, a radiochemist named Frederick Soddy had acknowleged the existence of the isotope.Without the existence of the isotope there would be no acknowledgement of the Carbon-14 isotope that is used for carbon dating
  • The isolation of the Carbon-14 Isotope!

    The isolation of the Carbon-14 Isotope!

    In February of !940 two men by hte name of Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben had isolated the Carbon-14 isotope making it one step closer to making the process of carbon dating possible.
  • Carbon-14 was dicovered

    Carbon-14 was dicovered

    Without Carbon-14 we would not be abe to use it to find out the dates of artifacts and old objects
  • The invention of Carbon Dating

    The invention of Carbon Dating

    During this year Cabon dating was invented by a man named Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University Of Chicago
  • Publishing their findings

    Publishing their findings

    The scientists who had discovered carbon dating had published their findings in a science journal telling the world of their findings
  • Dating of Dead Sea Scrolls

    Dating of Dead Sea Scrolls

    These were linens that were used in the process of carbon14 dating. They were one of the first pieces to be used with this new method

  • Approximate Dating

    A man named Hessel de Vries had shown that the concentration of carbon-14 can vary with the location and the time of the carbon. This was very important because it helped develop the accuracy of carbon-14 dating

  • Willard and the Nobel Prize

    Willard Libby was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of Carbon14 dating
  • Tree-Ring accuracy testing

    Tree-Ring accuracy testing

    During the year 1962, scientists had tested carbon 14 dating on tree rings to improve the accuracy of the process
  • Shroud of Turin

    Shroud of Turin

    During the year of 1988 scientists finally used Radiocarbon dating to date the Shroud of Turin. They had taken a swatch of the fabric and used the carbon-14 to find out that the piece that they were dating was from1260-1390 AD. This was a monumental discovery because there was much debate over whether this was actually the date of the piece or not. The procedure itself wasn't questioned just the part of the fabric that was taken