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The radiocarbon method and its application in modern science

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The radiocarbon method, which was developed more than 60 years ago and awarded the Nobel Prize, was initially used for dating archeological and geological objects, but soon the sphere of its application expanded substantially. The method has proved its universality and continues to be used successfully in science, engineering, medicine, and other fields of human activity.

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Original Russian Text © Ya.V. Kuz’min, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 127–133.

Yaroslav Vsevolodovich Kuz’min, Dr. Sci. (Geogr.), is a senior researcher at the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, RAS Siberian Branch.

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Kuz’min, Y.V. The radiocarbon method and its application in modern science. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 44–50 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331611010096

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