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Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry US chemist best known for developing the technique of radiocarbon dating, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on 17 December 1908, the son of a farmer. He received his university education at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1931 and gained his PhD in 1933. He then took a teaching appointment at Berkeley and in 1941, soon after the outbreak of World War II, moved to Columbia University, New York, to work on the development of the atomic bomb (the Manhattan Project). After the war, in 1945, he became professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies. From 1954 to 1959 he was a member of the US Atomic Energy Commission, then in 1959 he returned to the University of California to become director of the Institute of Geophysics. He died in Los Angeles on 8 September 1980. During the early 1940s…
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Full text Article Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry US chemist best known for developing the technique of radiocarbon dating, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on 17 December 1908, the son of a farmer. He received his…
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(born Dec. 17, 1908, Grand Valley, Colo., U.S.—died Sept. 8, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. chemist. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and later taught there and at the University of Chicago and UCLA. With the Manhattan Project , he helped develop a method for separating…
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From Science Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Chemistry
(b. 1908–d. 1980) Willard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on December 17, 1908, to Ora Edward Libby and Eva May (née Rivers). After attending grammar and high schools near Sebastopol, California (1913–26), he attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1927 to 1933, taking…
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From American Biographies: American Scientists
(b. 1908–d. 1980) chemist Willard F. Libby developed the radiocarbon dating technique for determining the age of organic compounds that are thousands of years old. For this achievement, he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Willard Frank Libby was born on December 17, 1908, in Grand…
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(born Dec. 17, 1908, Grand Valley, Colo., U.S.—died Sept. 8, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif.) American chemist Willard Frank Libby developed the technique of carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) dating, which provided an extremely valuable tool for archaeologists, anthropologists, and earth scientists and earned…
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LIBBY, WILLARD FRANK
Nationality: American b. 17 December 1908, Grand Valley, CO, USA; d. 8 September 1980, Los Angeles, CA, USA For his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science . Libby obtained his Ph.D. from the California University at Berkeley…
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