Martin Aitken
Martin Jim Aitken FRS (11 March 1922[1] – 13 June 2017[2]) was a British archaeometrist.[3][4]
Aitken was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.[5] He was Professor of Archaeometry at the University of Oxford from 1985 until he retired in 1989.[5][6]
Aitken organised annual meetings which became the Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection".[7] He had an interest in absolute dating: radiocarbon dating from 1957, thermoluminescence dating from the 1960s, and later helped develop optically stimulated luminescence as a dating method dating.[5]
He died in June 2017 at the age of 95.[8]
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- ^ Avis de décès (in French)
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