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"I arrived at the University of Arizona in time for the fall semester of 1957. The Geology Department had been criticized by the Physics and Chemistry Departments as a good pick and hammer department but behind the times. Urey, a chemist, had initiated the use of stable isotopes in geology, making use of Neir's advances in mass spectrometry. Neir, a physicist, had advanced geochronology; Blackett, a physicist, had initiated the field of geomagnetism; and Libby, a chemist, had developed 14C dating. I was supposed to bring the department into the post-World War II modern age of science with the commission to build an up-to-date 14C laboratory and to build a K Ar laboratory.
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