Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby.

Who created carbon dating?

Willard Libby Radiocarbon dating/Inventors Professor Willard Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, first proposed the idea of radiocarbon dating in 1946. Three years later, Libby proved his hypothesis correct when he accurately dated a series of objects with already-known ages.

What do we use instead of carbon dating?

They include potassium-argon dating, thats useful for rocks over 100,000 years old. Theres also uranium-lead dating, which has an age range of 1-4.5 million years old.