Mint Stuiver

Mint Stuiver, University of Washington 1998

Minze Stuiver (born October 25, 1929 in Vlagtwedde ) is a Dutch-American geochemist . He is known for making improvements to the carbon method .

Life

Stuiver studied at the University of Groningen with a diploma in experimental nuclear physics and mathematics in 1953 and received his doctorate there in 1958 under Hessel de Vries in biophysics with a dissertation on the biophysics of the sense of smell. As a post-doctoral student he was at Yale University , whose radiocarbon laboratory he headed from 1962 to 1969. In 1969 he became professor of geology and zoology at the University of Washington , from 1981 as professor of geology and quaternary research . He built the Quaternary Isotope Laboratory there. In 1998 he retired.

With the development of precision methods in radiocarbon dating, he held the record for the oldest radiocarbon dating for some time in the 1950s and achieved an overlap with the potassium-argon dating scale . He demonstrated brief fluctuations in the radiocarbon of the atmosphere and connections with changes in the solar magnetic field and was able to draw conclusions about solar activity in the past from radiocarbon data in tree rings . Together with colleagues, Stuiver developed the CALIB computer program for the calibration of radiocarbon data based on comparison with independent dating based on dendrochronology . In the 1970s he also dealt with the C14 ratios in inorganic carbon in seawater as part of the Geosecs program, which allowed conclusions to be drawn about the global circulation and mixing of the oceans.

He was also involved in the analysis of the ice cores from Greenland ( Greenland Ice Sheet Project , in this case on analysis of oxygen isotopes ).

In 2005 he received the Penrose Medal . In 1983 he received the Humboldt Research Award . Stuiver is one of the most cited geoscientists. The Stuiver Valley in Antarctica bears his name in his honor.

From 1977 to 1988 he was editor of Radiocarbon magazine .

Fonts

• with Hans E. Suess : On the relationship between radiocarbon dates and true sample ages, Radiocarbon, Volume 8, 1966, pp. 534-540.
• with HA Polach: Reporting of C-14 data - Discussion, Radiocarbon, Volume 19, 1977, pp. 355-363.
• with J. Heusser a. a .: North-American glacial history extended to 75,000 years ago, Science, Volume 200, 1978, pp. 16-21.
• with PD Quay: Changes in Carbon-14 attributed to a variable Sun, Science, Volume 207, 1980, pp. 11-19.
• with PD Quay: Atmospheric C-14 changes resulting from fossil-fuel CO2 release and cosmic-ray flux variability, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 53, 1981, pp. 349-362.
• with RS Kra (Ed.): Radiocarbon. Calibration Issue, New Haven, Connecticut, The American Journal of Science 1986.
• with P. J: Reimer: "A Computer-Program for Radiocarbon Age Calibration, Radiocarbon, Vol. 28, 1986, pp. 1022-1030.
• with PM Grootes u. a .: The GISP2 δ18O Climate Record of the Past 16,500 Years and the Role of the Sun, Ocean, and Volcanoes, Quaternary Research Volume 44, 1995, pp. 341-354.
• with Thomas Brazunias: Sun, ocean, climate and atmospheric 14CO2: an evaluation of causal and spectral relationships, Holocene, Volume 3, 1993, pp. 289-305
• A Random Walk Through Time, Radiocarbon, Volume 51, 2009, pp. 291-300.

Web links

• Homepage, University of Washington (English)
• GSA Penrose Medal for Stuiver (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Calib Manual ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.