Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Kamen a ranar 27 ga Agusta, 1913, a Toronto, ɗan Yahudawa Yahudawa na Rasha. Ya girma ne a Chicago. Ya sami digiri na farko a fannin ilmin sunadarai daga Jami'ar Chicago a 1933 kuma ya sami digirin digirgir a fannin kimiyyar lissafi daga wannan jami'ar a 1936. Daga nan sai ya nemi matsayin bincike a fannin ilmin sunadarai da kimiyyar nukiliya a karkashin Ernest Lawrence a dakin gwaje-gwaje na radiation a Berkeley, inda ya yi aiki ba tare da albashi ba har tsawon watanni shida har sai an dauke shi aiki don kula da shirye-shirye da rarraba kayayyakin cyclotron. Kodayake an riga an san carbon-14 a baya, ganowar haɗin carbon-14 ya faru ne a Berkeley lokacin da Kamen da Ruben suka harba graphite a cikin cyclotron da fatan samar da isotope na rediyo na carbon wanda za'a iya amfani dashi azaman mai ganowa a cikin binciken halayen sunadarai a cikin photosynthesis. Gwajin da suka yi ya ba da sakamakon carbon-14.  Tambaya: Yaushe Kamen ya sami digirin digirgir?
1936 shekara