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20
. Ibid., 170.
21
. A. Holmes,
The Age of the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Ideas
(E. Benn, 1927),
44.
22
. A. Holmes, “Part IV Radioactivity and Geological Time,” in
Physics of the Earth
(Wash-
ington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1931).
23
. Ibid., 454.
Duck Soup
1
. E. Gerling, “Age of the Earth According to Radioactivity Data,” paper presented in
Dok-
lady
(Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science), 1942.
2
. A. Holmes, “A Revised Estimate of the Age of the Earth,”
Nature
159 (1947). See G. B.
Dalrymple,
The Age of the Earth
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991), 317-321.
3
. I. B. Khriplovich, “The Eventful Life of Fritz Houtermans,”
Physics Today
45 (1992).
4
. Ibid., 35.
5
. Translation of the 1946 article in C. T. Harper,
Geochronology: Radiometric Dating of
Rocks and Minerals
(Stroudsburg, Pa.: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1973).
6
. F. G. Houtermans, “Das Aher Des Urans,”
Zeitschrift Naturforschung Teil A
2 (1947).
7
. Harrison Brown suggested the same idea in the same year: H. Brown, “An Experimental
Method for the Estimation of the Age of the Elements,”
Physical Review
72, no. 4 (1947).
8
. Some authors, such as Bryson, insist that to spell Patterson's first name with an “e,” as
Claire, is an error. But in both his classic paper on the age of the Earth and on his death certific-
ate Patterson's first name is spelled with an e. At times he dropped the “e,” but we will retain it.
9
. S. Cohen, “Duck Soup and Lead,”
Engineering and Science
60, no. 1 (1997): 21-31.
10
. Claire Patterson, “Age of Meteorites and the Earth,”
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
10, no. 4 (1956).
11
. Cohen, “Duck Soup and Lead.”
13
. G. B. Dalrymple,
Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies: The Age of Earth and Its Cosmic Sur-
roundings
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004), 129.
An Idea to Pursue
1
. R. M. McCoy,
Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred We-
gener
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 19; and M. Schwarzbach,
Alfred Wegener:
The Father of Contintal Drift
(Madison, Wis.: Science Tech, 1980), 76.
2
. A. Hallam,
Great Geological Controversies
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 154.
Italics added.
4
. E. Suess, W. J. Sollas, and H. B.C. Sollas,
The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz Der Erde)
,
vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1904); vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1906).
5
. M. T. Greene,
Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982), 103, 206.
6
. Suess et al.,
The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz Der Erde)
, 1:604.
