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joy and shout, 'Look at what I have done!', but instead, he discerned
'a strong subconscious sense of obligation to the generations-old
community of scientific minds for bequeathing this gift of glorious
emotion to the discoverer from their treasury of scientific knowledge
built over centuries.'
For centuries humankind had been attempting to discover the
age of the Earth, and in 1953 Clair Patterson gave us the answer, but in
his answer is their answer.
This is their story.
