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Clair Cameron Patterson

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Profession
Chemist
Died
Dec 5, 1995
Zodiac
Gemini
Born in
IA
About
His new uranium-lead dating method led to the first accurate measurement of the Earth's age, which was estimated to be 4.55 billion years. Because of his revolutionary research lead levels within the blood of Americans are reported to have dropped by up to 80% by the late 1990s.
Family
He met his wife Laurie McCleary at Grinnell College, where both were students.

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