biography
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Libby, Willard (Frank)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–80)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Grand Valley, Colorado, USA. He studied and lectured at Berkeley, CA, and was involved in atom bomb research at Columbia (1941–5). He became professor of chemistry at Chicago (1945–54), a member of the US Atomic Energy Commission (1954–9), and professor of chemistry at Los Angeles (1959–76). He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for his part in the invention of the carbon-14 method of dating. |
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