Libby, Willard F.
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Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980).
Libby (1908-1980).
Libby was born Dec. 17, 1908; BS (1931) and Ph. D (1933), UC Berkeley; part of the Manhattan Project, 1941-45; professor, Institute for Nuclear Studies, Univ. of Chicago, 1945-54; commissioner, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954-59; became a professor, UCLA Dept. of Chemistry, 1959; director, Institue of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA; received the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the radio-active dating technique known as carbon-14; died Sept. 8, 1980.
Chemist; interviewee b.1908; d.1980.
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Archeological physics
Carbon
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Cyclotrons
Diffusion processes
Heterogeneous catalysis
Hot-atom chemistry
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Manhattan Project (U.S.)
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Radiocarbon dating
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