Professor Steve Taylor

University of Liverpool

How do we know whether something is 6000 years old or 4.5 billion years old? What do modern telescopes and observations from stars millions of light years away tell us? And how about radiometric dating, fossils and archaeological material? This talk presents a layman’s review of the various dating methods, and their limitations.

Professor Steve Taylor BSc (Eng) MEng PhD ACGI FIEE FInstP CEng is Professor of the University of Liverpool in the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science, specialising in electromagnetics, nanotechnology and design. He is head of the Mass Spectrometry Research Group at Liverpool, which was responsible for the invention and development of the world’s smallest mass spectrometer.