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December 5, 1995 (73 years old)
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Gemini
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Clair Cameron Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology. In collaboration with George Tilton, Patterson developed the uranium–lead dating method into lead–lead dating. By using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, he calculated an age for the Earth of 4.55 billion years, which was a figure far more accurate than those that existed at the time, and one that has remained largely unchanged since 1956. Patterson had first encountered lead contamination in the late 1940s as a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
BornJune 2, 1922, Mitchellville, Iowa, United States
DiedDecember 05, 1995, Sea Ranch, California, United States
NationalityUnited States
FieldsGeochemistry
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Alma materGrinnell College, University of Iowa, University of Chicago
ThesisThe Isotopic Composition of Trace Quantities of Lead and Calcium (1951)
Known forUranium–lead dating, age of the Earth, lead contamination
Notable awardsTyler Prize (1995), V. M. Goldschmidt Award (1980), J. Lawrence Smith Medal (1973)
Children4 (Susan, Claire, Charles, Cameron)

About Clair Cameron Patterson

Chemist Clair Cameron Patterson was born on June 2, 1922 in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States (He dies at the age of 73, on December 5, 1995).

His new uranium-lead dating method yielded the first precise estimate of the Earth's age, which was 4.55 billion years. Lead levels in the blood of Americans were said to have reduced by up to 80% by the late 1990s as a result of his groundbreaking research.

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Clair Cameron Patterson before becoming famous

Clair Cameron Patterson was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1922 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

During WWII, he worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago and then in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Achievement of Clair Cameron Patterson

He also discovered that tetra-ethyl lead, a common additive to car fuel at the time, was harmful, and he pushed to have it banned.

Clair Cameron Patterson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He met his wife Laurie McCleary while both were students at Grinnell College.

Clair Cameron Patterson Collabed with

Engineer Vannevar Bush, like him, worked on the Manhattan Project.

Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974) (Engineer)
Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)

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Clair Cameron Patterson Income & Net worth

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