Edward Thomas Hall

Edward Thomas Hall, named Teddy Hall, often cited ET Hall, ( born May 10, 1924 in London, † August 11, 2001 in Oxford ) was a British physicist, known for work in Archaeometry.

Hall was the son of Walter D' Arcy Hall, a parliament member and officer. He attended Eton College and was in World War II in the Royal Navy. He then studied chemistry and physics at Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 1953. From 1955 he was the first Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art at Oxford.

Hall is among other things for his role in exposing the Piltdown man known ( in the 1950s with X-ray fluorescence techniques, the radiocarbon dating followed ) and introduced in 1988 ( with several other labs ) radiocarbon dating of the Turin grave cloth, which in a production middle Ages pointed ( 1260-1390 ). Later criticism loud, Hall remained convinced of the correctness of dating.

He founded the Littlemore Scientific Engineering Company, with which he built a highly accurate pendulum clock ( Littlemore Clock).

He was a Fellow of the British Academy and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ) ( 1988).

He was married to a South African model Jennifer De La Harpe since 1957 and had two sons.