Dr. Erle Nelson
Fellow
Current Employer
Simon Fraser University
Election Year
2006
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Earth Sciences
Department
Department of Archaeology
Keywords
Radiocarbon dating, accelerator mass spectometry
Long Citation
Professor Erle Nelson is an internationally recognized authority on radiocarbon dating, the categorization of archaeological artifacts by chemical, isotopic and mineralogical methods, and the application of stable isotope methods to the identification of the diets of animals and ancient peoples. Simultaneously with another Canadian physicist, he was responsible for the invention of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer technique for small sample radiometric dating, which is now widely used around the world in many branches of earth and environmental sciences, physics and medicine.
Short Citation
Erle Nelson is an internationally recognized authority on radiocarbon dating. Simultaneously with another Canadian physicist, he was responsible for the invention of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer technique for small sample radiometric dating, which is now widely used around the world in many branches of earth and environmental sciences, physics and medicine.
Professor Erle Nelson is an internationally recognized authority on radiocarbon dating, the categorization of archaeological artifacts by chemical, isotopic and mineralogical methods, and the application of stable isotope methods to the identification of the diets of animals and ancient peoples. Simultaneously with another Canadian physicist, he was responsible for the invention of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer technique for small sample radiometric dating, which is now widely used around the world in many branches of earth and environmental sciences, physics and medicine.
Short Citation
Erle Nelson is an internationally recognized authority on radiocarbon dating. Simultaneously with another Canadian physicist, he was responsible for the invention of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer technique for small sample radiometric dating, which is now widely used around the world in many branches of earth and environmental sciences, physics and medicine.