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    Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry. Boltwood...
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  • Boltwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bertram Boltwood (1870–1927), American pioneer of radiochemistry Paul Boltwood (1943–2017)...
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  • decay. The use of radiometric dating was first published in 1907 by Bertram Boltwood and is now the principal source of information about the absolute age...
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    changed her mind and insisted on one gram of radium. According to Bertram Boltwood, Marie Curie thought that "the use of the name 'curie' for so infinitesimally...
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  • radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat 1907 – Bertram Boltwood proposes that the amount of lead in uranium and thorium ores might...
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  • law professor and governor Charles Emerson Beecher, paleontologist Bertram Boltwood, radiochemist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, graphic designer, artist...
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    Other notable students See list Edward Andrade Patrick Blackett Niels Bohr Bertram Boltwood Harriet Brooks Teddy Bullard John Cockcroft Charles Galton Darwin Charles...
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    found in the decay chains of thorium and uranium. American chemist Bertram Boltwood proposed several decay chains linking these radioelements between uranium...
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    determining ages of uranium minerals and rocks by Ernest Rutherford, Bertram Boltwood, Robert Strutt, and Arthur Holmes, would culminate in what are considered...
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    In 1905 curative characteristics were being ascribed to radium and Bertram Boltwood of Yale examined these waters. There is a measurable level of radioactivity...
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