Martin Jim Aitken
FRS (11 March 1922 – 13 June 2017) was a British
archaeometrist.
Aitken was born in
Stamford, Lincolnshire, and studied physics at
Wadham College, Oxford. He was a fellow of
Linacre College, Oxford.
He was Professor of Archaeometry at the University of Oxford from 1985 until he retired in 1989.
Aitken organised annual meetings which became the Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection". He had an interest in
absolute dating:
radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
The method was dev ...
from 1957,
thermoluminescence dating from the 1960s, and later helped develop
optically stimulated luminescence as a dating method dating.
He died in June 2017 at the age of 95.
Avis de décès
(in French)
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1922 births
2017 deaths
British archaeologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
People educated at Stamford School