{{Short description|American academic}} '''Wesley Ferguson''' (1922 – March 24, 1986)<ref name="TRB1986">{{cite journal|last=Morris|first=Elizabeth A.|date=1986|title=Charles Wesley Ferguson ,1922–1986|url=https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/261692|journal=Tree-Ring Bulletin|publisher=Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona|volume=46|pages=1}}</ref> was an American academic at the Tree-Ring Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona at Tucson who studied tree-rings.<ref name=Aitken_44>Aitken, ''Science-based Dating in Archaeology'', p. 44.</ref> He built a tree-ring sequence from bristlecone pines which was used by Hans Suess to create a calibration curve for radiocarbon dating.<ref name=Bowman_16>Bowman, ''Radiocarbon Dating''. p. 16.</ref>
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==References== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |first=M. J. |last=Aitken |title=Science-based Dating in Archaeology |year=1990 |location=London |publisher=Longman |isbn=0-582-49309-9}} *{{cite book |first=Sheridan |last=Bowman |title=Radiocarbon Dating |url=https://archive.org/details/radiocarbondatin00bow_0va |url-access=registration |year=1995 |orig-year=1990 |location=London|publisher=British Museum Press |isbn=0-7141-2047-2 }} {{refend}}
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