Claire Cameron Patterson ..— The man who discovered the age of the earth and saved the human race from lead

August 12, 2021

Patterson estimated the age of the Earth to be 4.55 billion years, using lead in the interior.While working under Harrison Brown, a research consultant at the University of Chicago, he was commissioned to conduct the geological aging of Zurcon by Harrison Brown Patterson, who realized Paterson’s immense ability to use mass spectroscopy. Therefore, if there…