Martin Aitken


Martin Jim Aitken FRS was a British archaeometrist.
Aitken was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Aitken organised annual meetings which became the Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection".
He retired in 1989 and died in June 2017 at the age of 95.