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Martin David Kamen (1913-2002) co-discovered carbon-14 in 1940 with Samuel Ruben. In 1944 he was expelled from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as a security risk. During his later career he focused on the biochemical processes of photosynthesis. In 1961 he joined the University of California, San Diego Chemistry Department, where he acted as a "founding father" of the new campus.

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Martin Kamen Obituary for the scientist who was one of the discoverers of the isotope carbon-14 and is also remembered as a victim of Cold War era witch hunts. From the Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,788480,00.html

Martin Kamen, 89, a Discoverer of Radioactive Carbon-14, Is Dead New York Times obituary. www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/obituaries/05KAME.html

Martin David Kamen Papers Details of the contents of the collected papers held by University of California San Diego. Includes a biography. orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0098a.html

Martin Kamen, Who Discovered Carbon-14, Wins Fermi Award Short biography from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, written in 1995. www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Kamen-Fermi-Award.html