Willard Libby - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1960
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Willard Libby

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1960
for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/17/1908
place of birth
Grand Valley
date of death
9/8/1980
place of death
Los Angeles
Lived
71 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1954
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1958
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
field of work
  • physical chemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
educated at
  • Princeton University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Analy High School
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
doctoral student
  • F. Sherwood Rowland
  • Maurice Sanford Fox
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