Willard Libby
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 43 years ago |
Date of birth | December 17,1908 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Grand Valley |
Colorado | |
United States | |
Date of died | September 8,1980 |
Died | Los Angeles |
California | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Books | Radiocarbon Dating |
Job | Chemist |
Education | University of California, Berkeley |
Analy High School | |
Princeton University | |
West County High School | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Willard Gibbs Award | |
Elliott Cresson Medal | |
Albert Einstein Award | |
Arthur L. Day Medal | |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
Joseph Priestley Award | |
Spouse | Leona Woods |
Known for | Radiocarbon dating |
Field | Radioactivity |
Thesi | samarium and neodymium |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547247 |
Willard Libby Life story
Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.