Wesley Ferguson (1922 – March 24, 1986)
was an American academic at the Tree-Ring Research Laboratory at the
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory.
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at Tucson who studied tree-rings.
[Aitken, ''Science-based Dating in Archaeology'', p. 44.] He built a tree-ring sequence from
bristlecone pines which was used by
Hans Suess
Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993) was an Austrian born United States, American physical chemist and nuclear physicist. He was a grandson of the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess.
Career
Suess earned his Ph.D. in chemist ...
to create a calibration curve for radiocarbon dating.
[Bowman, ''Radiocarbon Dating''. p. 16.]
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1922 births
1986 deaths
American botanists
University of Arizona faculty