• Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon...
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    cosmology. In 1966 she divorced John Marshall and married Nobel laureate Willard Libby. She moved as a professor to the University of Colorado, and was a staff...
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  • President Dick Cheney Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist Grace Libby Vollmer (1884–1977), née Libby, American painter. Libby (Lost), a minor character...
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    method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby, based on the constant creation of radiocarbon (14 C) in the Earth's...
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    organic matter is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological...
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  • F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 Nobel Prize), Willard Libby (1960 Nobel Prize), Melvin Calvin (1961 Nobel Prize) and so on, turning...
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    population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The town's name comes...
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  • in calculating radiocarbon ages, has not been constant historically. Willard Libby, the inventor of radiocarbon dating, pointed out as early as 1955 the...
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    Severo Ochoa Salvatore Quasimodo Philip Noel-Baker 1960 Donald A. Glaser Willard Libby Macfarlane Burnet; Peter Medawar Saint-John Perse Albert Lutuli 1961...
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  • was also a historical test of a piece of linen performed in 1946 by Willard Libby, the inventor of the dating method. One of the earliest carbon dating...
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  • until many years later. On January 18, 1955, then-AEC commissioner Dr. Willard Libby said that there was insufficient data regarding the effects of fallout...
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  • Fontaine, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, comedian Joe E. Brown, Nobel laureate chemist Willard Libby, composers Lukas Foss and Conrad Salinger, and writer Aldous Huxley...
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    Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William...
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  • 1985 XR Roger Chanal, French amateur astronomer MPC · 5671 5672 Libby 1986 EE2 Willard Libby (1908–1980), American physical chemist noted and Nobel Prize...
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    Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William...
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    1960s Martin Glaessner would show that they were pre-Cambrian. 1947 — Willard Libby introduces carbon-14 dating. 1953 — Stanley A. Tyler discovers microfossils...
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    Alexander Todd 1958: Frederick Sanger 1959: Jaroslav Heyrovský 1960: Willard Libby 1961: Melvin Calvin 1962: Max Perutz / John Kendrew 1963: Karl Ziegler...
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    Machine from LLNL website (Last accessed Feb. 11, 2007). Biography of W. F. Libby at nobelprize.org (Last accessed May 13, 2008). Bernard T. Feld; Gertrud...
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    F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 Nobel Prize), Willard Libby (1960 Nobel Prize), and Melvin Calvin (1961 Nobel Prize). Glenn T. Seaborg...
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    Ignarro Physiology or Medicine 1998 Paul Boyer Chemistry 1997 Donald Cram Chemistry 1987 Julian S. Schwinger Physics 1965 Willard Libby Chemistry 1960...
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    Rikers Island Penitentiary and the Renovo, Pennsylvania, post office. Willard Libby (1908–1980), Nobel Prize–winning scientist who played a lead role in...
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    Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William...
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    theorist Leo Kadanoff, condensed matter physicist Edward Kolb, cosmologist Willard Libby, chemist Emil Martinec, string theorist Joseph E. Mayer, chemist Maria...
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    film director William Wyler. Other attendees included Nobel laureate Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960) and future Nobel laureate Luis Walter Alvarez (Physics...
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    a longer half-life than its ground state, promethium-148. In 1934, Willard Libby reported that he had found weak beta activity in pure neodymium, which...
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    bubble chamber Joshua Lederberg, discoverer of bacterial conjugation Willard Libby, contributor to radiocarbon dating Linus Pauling, pioneer of quantum...
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  • Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago—work for which Libby will receive the Nobel prize in 1960...
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    products of uranium. Her laboratory was above those of Nobel Prize winners Willard Libby and Melvin Calvin. In March 1941, Melhase worked with Art Wahl. He handed...
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  • Lewis Physiology or Medicine 1995 California Institute of Technology Willard Libby Chemistry 1960 University of California, Los Angeles Tomas Lindahl Chemistry...
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  • English professional international footballer (b. 1901) September 8 Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (b. 1908) Bruce...
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