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Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
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association with Dunning
- In John R. Dunning
With Alfred Nier and other colleagues, he then showed in 1940 that it was mostly the uranium-235 isotope that was involved in the fission of the uranium nucleus. Dunning went on to direct the research team at Columbia that developed the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium-235…
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contribution to mass spectrometry
detection of argon-40
- In dating: Potassium–argon methods
Aldrich and A.O. Nier, the method has evolved into one of the most versatile and widely employed methods available. Potassium is one of the 10 most abundant elements that together make up 99 percent of Earth’s crust and is therefore a major constituent of many rock-forming minerals.…
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