When I put pen to paper in the summer of 1982, uppermost in my mind was the need to provide new practitioners with an introduction to the theory and practice of thermoluminescence (TL) dating, particularly those without a strong background in physics. Assimilating the corpus of specialist papers which at present define the theory and practi…
In the nineteen years, 1965-1983, spanning the seven international conferences devoted to luminescence dosimetry, the applications of thermoluminescence to ionizing radiation dosimetry have become legion. There is no doubt that thermoluminescence now occupies a central and constantly expanding role in ionizing radiation dosimetry in the fields o…