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	Libby, Willard Frank - MSN Encarta
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, and educated at the University of California at Berkeley.
		He was a member of the general advisory committee of the AEC from 1960 until 1962, when he became director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
		Libby is best known for having perfected, in 1947, the carbon-14 dating technique (see Dating Methods), a method of determining the approximate age of prehistoric organic remains.
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	Willard Frank Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Willard Libby was an American Chemist, best known for his development of Carbon 14 (radiocarbon) dating techniques.
		Libby was born Dec. 17, 1908 in Grand Valley, Colorado.
		Libby was able to determine the age of organic artifacts by measuring the amount of remaining C14.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/libby_willard.html (314 words)

	Willard Libby Summary
		Willard Libby, a farmer's son, was born on December 17, 1908, at Grand Valley, Colorado.
		Libby was an authority on radioactivity and radioactive decay.
		Willard Frank Libby(December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
	www.bookrags.com /Willard_Libby (288 words)

	Willard Libby - ExampleProblems.com
		Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
		Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation and enrichment of the Uranium-235 which was used in the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
		In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for leading the team (namely, post-doc James Arnold and graduate student Ernie Anderson, with a $5,000 grant) that developed Carbon-14 dating.
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	LIBBY, Willard Frank
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colo., and educated at the University of California at Berkeley.
		For the next five years Libby was a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), but he returned to teaching in 1959 when he became a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles.
		On August 4, 1944, acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off.
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	Willard Libby
		Libby resigned from this position in 1959 to become a professor of chemistry at University California, Los Angeles.
		Libby first proposed his idea of carbon dating in 1947 and over the next 12 years he researched and perfected the process.
		Libby found a way to determine the age of plant-based artifacts utilizing the decay rate of carbon-14.
	www.english.ucla.edu /ucla1960s/6667/shonnard2.htm (395 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on December 17, 1908.
		This appointment was renewed for a further five-year term in 1956, but Libby resigned from it in 1959 to become a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles.
		Libby died in 1980, but not before being honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1960 for his radiocarbon dating method.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/libby.html (565 words)

	Willard F. Libby - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Willard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on 17th December, 1908, to Ora Edward Libby and his wife Eva May (née Rivers).
		This appointment was renewed by the President for a further five-year term on 19th June, 1956, but Libby resigned from it on 30th June, 1959, to become Professor of Chemistry in the University of California at Los Angeles, being appointed Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics on 1st January, 1962.
		Libby has performed a wide range of scientific advisory and technical consultant work with industrial firms associated with the Institute for Nuclear Studies, as well as with defence departments, scientific organizations and universities.
	www.nobel.se /chemistry/laureates/1960/libby-bio.html (520 words)

	The method
		Libby, Anderson and Arnold (1949) were the first to measure the rate of this decay.
		Libby reasoned that since the half-life of C14 was 5568 years, they should obtain a C14 concentration of about 50% that which was found in living wood (see Libby, 1949 for further details).
		Briefly, the initial solid carbon method developed by Libby and his collaborators was replaced with the Gas counting method in the 1950's.
	www.c14dating.com /int.html (1743 words)

	Libby, Willard Frank - Encyclopedia of Earth
		Willard Frank Libby (1908 - 1980), an American chemist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize for the discovery of radiocarbon dating, a process that revolutionized archaeology and several other branches of science.
		Libby was able to determine the age of organic artifacts by measuring the amount of remaining
		Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation and enrichment of Uranium-235 that was used in the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Libby,_Willard_Frank (280 words)

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	Clemens Rainer Berger
		Rainer Berger began his lengthy association with UCLA in 1963 when Willard Libby, Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), invited him to become a research associate in order to assist in the development of a radiocarbon laboratory on campus.
		Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980), professor of chemistry at UCLA from 1959 to 1976, had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for his pioneer research in radiocarbon age determination.
		He would work with them in his laboratory and among the procedures that he and his students developed was a method for the separation and purification of bone collagen from contaminant organic debris.
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /senate/inmemoriam/bergercr.htm (981 words)

	Radiometric dating Summary
		In 1947, a radioactive dating method for determining the age of organic materials, was developed by Willard Frank Libby, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his radiocarbon research.
		Libby found that the amount of carbon-14 remains constant in a living plant or animal and is in equilibrium with the environment, however once the organism dies, the carbon-14 within it diminishes according to its rate of decay.
		Libby began testing his procedure by dating objects whose ages were already known, such as samples from Egyptian tombs.
	www.bookrags.com /Radiometric_dating (4883 words)

	History of Carbon 14 Dating: 2005 Facts
		Willard Frank Libby (1908 -1980), a chemist who had researched uranium as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, developed the first method for dating material that had a biological origin.
		Libby had realized that since all living things had a relatively constant carbon 14 to carbon 12 ratio as found in the atmosphere.
		Libby initially tested the radiocarbon method on samples for which some dates were known, mostly prehistoric Egyptian material.
	www.factsplusfacts.com /carbon-14-history.htm (1301 words)

	Willard Libby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
		The school library has a mural depicting Libby, and a nearby highway is named in his honor.
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	The Philosophers' Stone \| TIME
		Libby and a group of devoted associates worked for three years to perfect an "atomic calendar," ultimately achieved an accurate method of measuring the past with carbon 14.
		Libby is a solemn, slow-spoken and serious man, and in his office at the AEC he seems weighed down, even a little awed, by the burdens of his position, where a single slip of the tongue may betray a national secret.
		Libby's politics, on the rare occasions when he shows them, are stoutly conservative, and he is known to disagree with the highly vocal school of nuclear scientists (e.g., Chicago's Harold Urey) which insists that the only guarantees against nuclear war are political projects, such as world government.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,807508-5,00.html (720 words)

	Today in Technology History - Dec 17
		Willard Frank Libby was born into a farming family on December 17, 1908 in Grand Valley, Colorado.
		Since carbon-14 breaks down at a constant rate -- it has a half-life of about 5,730 years -- it is possible to determine very precisely the age of certain old items by examining the amount of carbon-14 in them.
		Libby perfected this technique, known as "carbon-14 dating" (or "radiocarbon dating").
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/dec17.htm (300 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Libby, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1960, Libby received the 1960 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his development of carbon dating.
		He taught (1933-45) at the Univ. of California and was a chemist (1941-45) in the war research division at Columbia.
		Libby claims he's 'sacrificial lamb' in CIA leak case
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	Libby Family Crest
		Libby is one of the oldest family names to come from the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain.
		Thus, the name Libby is a metonymic surname, which is derived from the name of the mother.
		In the Libby coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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	Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Libby is a city located in Lincoln County, Montana.
		Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.9% are under the age of 18 and 12.5% are 65 or older.
		"Libby" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
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	mytake
		Willard Libby managed to work in a variety of different areas throughout his lifetime, which for the most part benefited all of society.
		I was pleased with Willard Libby as my scientist selection because I found sound information about him, but not too much that it became overwhelming.
		Willard Libby was a great contributor to the field of science and I am glad that I had the opportunity to learn more about him.
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	Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		With the outbreak of World War II he became engaged in research on the atomic bomb project.
		For the next five years Libby was a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), but he returned to teaching in 1959 when he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles.
		Libby is best known for having perfected, in 1947, the carbon-14 dating technique, a method of determining the approximate age of prehistoric organic remains.
	www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg /fmi/contmech/kmarkov/history/Libby.html (185 words)

	Libby Willard Frank
		Willard Frak Libby Ã¨ stato insignito del premio Nobel per la chimica,...; Libby, Willard Frank - MSN Encarta - Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980), American chemist and Nobel laureate, who developed...
		Libby received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the faculty from 1933 to 1945.
		Willard Frank Libby Winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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	Libby, Willard Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		US chemist whose development in 1947 of radiocarbon dating as a means of determining the age of organic or fossilized material won him a Nobel prize in 1960.
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
		During World War II he worked on the development of the atomic bomb (the Manhattan Project).
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	k08 The special case of Carbon-14 dating
		Libby realized that when a plant takes in CO it does not discriminate between
		C in the plant material is compared to that in air is a measure of its age.
		C ages found for such things as historical datable wood from Egyptian tombs or wood, its absolute-age known by tree-ring counting (dendrochronology), as say from the cedar "bonsai" of the cliffs of the Niagra escarpment, Ontario.
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	About RAND \| History \| The Nobel Prize and RAND
		Willard Frank Libby, RAND consultant from 1953-54 and again from1969-1980, was a chemist whose technique of carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) dating provided an extremely valuable tool for archaeologists, anthropologists, and earth scientists.
		While associated with the Manhattan Project (1941–45), Libby helped develop a method for separating uranium isotopes, an essential step in the creation of the atomic bomb.
		Harry M. Markowitz, an employee from 1951 to 1957, again from 1960 to 1962, and then a consultant from 1962 to 1967, was the co-winner (with Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe) of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Economics for theories on evaluating stock-market risk and reward and on valuing corporate stocks and bonds.
	www.rand.org /about/history/nobel (4641 words)

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	December 17 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		For this development he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960.
		Libby is a specialist in radiochemistry, particularly hot atom chemistry, tracer techniques, and isotope tracer work.
		He became well-known at Chicago University also for his work with natural tritium, and its use in hydrology and geophysics.
	www.todayinsci.com /12/12_17.htm (3172 words)

	Earlham College - Geology 211 - Radiometric Dating
		Dr. Willard F. Libby (1908-1980) and a team of students at the Institute for Nuclear Studies applied their knowledge of the isotope Carbon-14 (an unstable isotope found in organic material) to measure the age of objects that had known historical ages, such as artifacts from ancient Egypt.
		Though radioactive materials had been used as early as 1907 (uranium-lead methods) to determine approximate ages, this was the first study to use known dates to prove their findings correct.
		By successfully matching historical ages with measured radioactive decay, Libby opened the door to other types of radiometric dating, which would contribute to more specific dates on the vast geologic time scale.
	www.earlham.edu /~smithal/radiometric-origins.htm (287 words)

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