• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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