Willard Frank Libby
1908-1980
American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1960 for his work on the development of radiocarbon dating. He invented techniques for measuring the amount of r...
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Willard Frank Libby
1908-1980
American chemist who received the 1960 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the technique of carbon-14 dating. As a member of the Manhattan Project, Libby helped deve...
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Libby, Willard F. (1908-1980)
American chemist
Chemist Willard F. Libby developed the radiocarbon dating technique used to determine the age of organic materials. With applications in numerous branche...
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Chemist Willard F. Libby developed the radiocarbon dating technique used to determine the age of organic materials. With applications in numerous branches of science, including archaeology, geology, a...
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Chemist Willard F. Libby developed the radiocarbon dating technique used to determine the age of organic materials. With applications in numerous branches of science, including archaeology, geology, a...
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The American chemist Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) pioneered in radiocarbon dating, for which he received the Nobel Prize.Willard Libby, a farmer's son, was born on December 17, 1908, at Grand Valle...
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Libby was an authority on radioactivity and radioactive decay. His greatest legacy is the science of radioactive dating, by which the age of ancient organic material can be determined. For this discov...
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