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Willard Libby

Willard Libby
Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

17 December 1908

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