# Vagn Mejdahl · Person

> Danish physicist at the Risø National Laboratory, a pioneer of thermoluminescence dating, who first proposed TL for Glozel in 1969 and co-authored the…

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# Vagn Mejdahl

Danish physicist at the Risø National Laboratory, a pioneer of thermoluminescence dating, who first proposed TL for Glozel in 1969 and co-authored the 1974-1976 results placing the ceramics between about 700 BC and AD 100.

[Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)[1 event][2 sources]

Vagn Mejdahl is danish TL dating specialist at Risø, lead physicist of the 1974 Glozel dating programme., and appears in the record of Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field as danish physicist at the Risø National Laboratory, a pioneer of thermoluminescence dating, who first proposed TL for Glozel in 1969 and co-authored the 1974-1976 results placing the ceramics between about 700 BC and AD 100.

One event on the site involves Mejdahl: McKerrell, Mejdahl, François and Portal report thermoluminescence dates of 700 BC to AD 100 (Dec 1974).

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## In the mysteries

**Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field**

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[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)

## What Vagn Mejdahl did 1

Dec 1974[McKerrell, Mejdahl, François and Portal report thermoluminescence dates of 700 BC to AD 100](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/events/EVT0DEDRBD2J3WR/mckerrell-mejdahl-francois-and-portal-report)

## Sources 2

[Thermoluminescence and Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHPBC6CAF/thermoluminescence-and-glozel)

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[Datation par thermoluminescence de céramique de Glozel: L'affaire de Glozel; Les mesures de thermoluminescence](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHRKN8QDW/datation-par-thermoluminescence-de-ceramique-de-glozel)

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