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George Page (1920\u20131967) played a central but often overlooked role in New Zealand. Drawing on wartime and post\u2010World War II experience in isotope separation and instrumentation, Page was directly responsible for the construction of New Zealand's first operational mass spectrometer at the Dominion Physical Laboratory. Working with Athol Rafter and Gordon Fergusson, he helped establish the technical capability that supported early radiocarbon dating, stable isotope geochemistry and hydrological studies, including the identification of the post\u20101954 rise in atmospheric\n                    <jats:sup>14<\/jats:sup>\n                    C. His work was rarely documented in publications. Instead, his contribution lay in the design and operation of the instruments that made isotope measurements possible with limited resources. This paper examines Page's role through the instruments he developed and shows how they laid the groundwork for isotope science in New Zealand.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/jms.70113","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]],"date-time":"2026-09-15T13:33:14Z","timestamp":1789479194000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["From Wartime Nuclear Physics to Isotope Science: George Page and the Foundations of New Zealand Mass Spectrometry"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"61","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8361-917X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kevin","family":"Faure","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Sciences New Zealand, National Isotope Centre  Lower Hutt New Zealand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-0350-5139","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andy","family":"Phillips","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Sciences New Zealand, National Isotope Centre  Lower Hutt New Zealand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","unstructured":"E.Marsden \u201cReport on the Work of New Zealand Scientists in North America \u201d DSIR Internal Report (1945)."},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","volume-title":"DSIR: Making Science Work for New Zealand","author":"Galbreath R.","year":"1998"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","volume-title":"Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945\u20131990","author":"Templeton M.","year":"1945"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","unstructured":"R.Priestley \u201cNuclear New Zealand: New Zealand's Nuclear and Radiation History to 1987 \u201d University of Canterbury 2010."},{"key":"e_1_2_13_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1478-0542.2010.00684.x"},{"issue":"12","key":"e_1_2_13_7_1","first-page":"1175","article-title":"Manhattan Project: The Story of the Century","volume":"88","author":"Reed B. 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