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Helen Vaughn Michel pioneered the use of high-tech chemical instruments like neutron activation analysis to study archaeological artifacts. She was able to pinpoint the geographic origin of ancient pottery and detect chemical traces of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago based on studying rock layers in Italy. For many years she did typical nuclear chemistry work but in the 1960s began applying it to determine the age of archaeological finds, an emerging field at the time.

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Tsetsa Tsolova

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