Hessel de Vries, was a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen who furthered the detection methods and applications of radiocarbon dating to a variety of sciences. He has been called "the unsung hero of radiocarbon dating" by Willis. In 1958, de Vries showed that there were systematic anomalies in the carbon-14 dates of tree rings. His explanation was that the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere had varied over time by up to 1%.

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  • Hessel de Vries, was a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen who furthered the detection methods and applications of radiocarbon dating to a variety of sciences. He has been called "the unsung hero of radiocarbon dating" by Willis. In 1958, de Vries showed that there were systematic anomalies in the carbon-14 dates of tree rings. His explanation was that the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere had varied over time by up to 1%. He hypothesized that the variation might be explained by (a) something connected with climate, (b) that it was not created in the atmosphere at a uniform rate due to variations in the Earth's magnetic field, or (c) a cause lay in the Sun itself.
  • Hessel L. de Vries was een Nederlands natuurkundige en hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Groningen die de detectiemethoden en toepassingen van koolstof-14 datering drastisch verbeterde en uitbreidde tot vele wetenschappen. De expert op dit gebied, Willis, noemde hem "de miskende held van de C14-datering" ("the unsung hero of radiocarbon dating"), want als hij geen zelfmoord had gepleegd had hij mogelijk de Nobelprijs gewonnen. Verder was hij biofysicus.
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  • Hessel de Vries, was a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen who furthered the detection methods and applications of radiocarbon dating to a variety of sciences. He has been called "the unsung hero of radiocarbon dating" by Willis. In 1958, de Vries showed that there were systematic anomalies in the carbon-14 dates of tree rings. His explanation was that the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere had varied over time by up to 1%.
  • Hessel L. de Vries was een Nederlands natuurkundige en hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Groningen die de detectiemethoden en toepassingen van koolstof-14 datering drastisch verbeterde en uitbreidde tot vele wetenschappen. De expert op dit gebied, Willis, noemde hem "de miskende held van de C14-datering" ("the unsung hero of radiocarbon dating"), want als hij geen zelfmoord had gepleegd had hij mogelijk de Nobelprijs gewonnen. Verder was hij biofysicus.
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