The latest addition to the already solid Leaf roster is 26-year-old Parisian Cécile Schott, who effortlessly blends organic samples of traditional Asian music (koto and tuned percussion) with organ, live drums, and looped vinyl samples to create a sweetly innocent atmospheric album.
Her particular hero is Klaus Oeggl, an Innsbruck paleobotanist whose stock in trade is organic samples from prehistoric bogs.
When organic samples are dissolved for the determination of organic analytes, of course, much milder conditions are employed.
As one of the authors, Dr Corinne Spickett from the Department of Bioscience at Strathclyde University, said in an interview on Radio 4: "The differences were not very large, the organic samples we looked at were quite variable".
A see-through pipe protruding from the gallery wall is filled with dust and dirt: it's like a hypodermic needle extracting vital organic samples of the building's physical construction.
After showing the essential uniformity of carbon-14 in living material, Libby sought to answer the second question by measuring the radiocarbon level in organic samples dated historically materials as old as 5,000 years from sources such as Egyptian tombs.
The proposed approach proves to be cheap, quick and avoids handling the organic samples.
