Libby, Willard F.
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Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980).
From the description of Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81866341
Libby (1908-1980).
From the description of Papers, ca. 1950-1980. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 81276740
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.
From the description of Papers, ca. 1954-1976. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38515615
Chemist; interviewee b.1908; d.1980.
From the description of Reminiscences of Willard Frank Libby : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513374
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Subjects:
- Archeological physics
- Carbon
- Chemistry
- Chemists
- Chemists
- Cyclotrons
- Diffusion processes
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Hot-atom chemistry
- Isotopes
- Low-level radiation
- Manhattan Project (U.S.)
- Nobel Prizes
- Nuclear counters
- Nuclear isomers
- Nuclear physics
- Physics
- Radioactive fallout
- Radiocarbon dating
- Radiocarbon dating
- Radiochemistry
- Research
- Secrecy
- Tritium
- Tritium
- World War, 1939-1945
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- United States (as recorded)
