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	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 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willard_Libby (314 words)

	Willard Libby
		Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionised archaeology.
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado[?], and educated at the University of Berkeley[?], California, where he later became a lecturer.
		In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for leading the team that developed Carbon-14 dating.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Willard_Libby.html (114 words)

	Willard Libby (UCLA Gateway)
		Willard F. Libby developed "carbon dating," a method of using carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics and other branches of science.
		Libby was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also worked as an instructor, assistant and then associate professor.
		Willard Libby was born Dec. 17, 1908 and died in 1980.
	www.ucla.edu /about/nobelwinners/libby.html (165 words)

	Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, and educated at the University of California at Berkeley.
		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)

	Willard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		John Willard (died 1692), convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials
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	Willard F. Libby - Biography
		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.
		Professor Libby holds memberships of numerous learned societies in the United States; he is also Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, of the Bolivian Society of Anthropology, and is Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1960).
	nobelprize.org /chemistry/laureates/1960/libby-bio.html (543 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 Frank Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 the Two Faced by Libby Lazewnik
		Willard found that this was something he was very, very good at.
		So it was Willard that a group of some one hundred angry miners — with plenty of enraged wives and uncles and cousins to swell their ranks — surrounded the City Hall and demanded to see the Mayor.
		Willard had long since forgotten what it means to know yourself, to take a stand, to believe in something.
	jewishworldreview.com /0306/lazewnik_two_faced.php3 (3246 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Libby introduces radiocarbon dating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1947 American chemist Willard Libby (1908-1980) figured that plants would absorb some of this trace carbon-14 while they absorbed ordinary carbon in photosynthesis.
		Once the plant died, of course, it couldn't absorb any more carbon of any kind, and the carbon-14 it contained would decay at its usual rate without being replaced.
		For his work on carbon-14 dating, Libby received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1960.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do47ra.html (207 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)

	Willard Frank Libby - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Willard Frank Libby
		US chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for his development in 1947 of radiocarbon dating as a means of determining the age of organic or fossilized material.
		Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Willard+Frank+Libby (248 words)

	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)

	Today in History: December 17
		Libby won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the technique known as radiocarbon dating.
		Among the items Libby tested and dated were prehistoric sloth dung, charcoal from Stonehenge, and the parchment wrappings of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
		Libby, who received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1933, joined the Manhattan Project after the U.S. entered World War II.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec17.html (1196 words)

	Willard Frank Libby Biography / Biography of Willard Frank Libby History of Scientific Discovery Biography
		Libby was an authority on radioactivity and radioactive decay.
		Libby quickly became familiar with nuclear theories and technology and during his doctoral research he constructed the first Geiger counter seen in the United States.
		The idea of carbon-14 as a means for determining age came to Libby relatively early, particularly after Serge Korff's 1939 experiments showing how radioactive carbon-14 was created in the atmosphere by cosmic rays.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-willard-frank-libby-wsd (262 words)

	Willard Frank Libby -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		U.S. chemist Willard Frank Libby worked as a member of the Manhattan Project before he won the Nobel prize in 1960 for his development of the “atomic clock,” or carbon-14, method of dating ancient archaeological artifacts.
		Libby was born on Dec. 17, 1908, in Grand Valley, Colo. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1933 to 1941.
		A young lecturer and educator, Frances Willard, joined the movement and soon became famous for her work, particularly in building the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312177 (637 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)

	K-12
		Willard Libby, the principal scientist, had worked in the team making the nuclear bomb during World War 2, so he was an expert in nuclear and atomic chemistry.
		Libby tested the new radiocarbon method on carbon samples from prehistoric Egypt whose age was known.
		Libby figured that since the half-life of C14 was 5568 years, they should obtain a radiocarbon amount of about 50% of that which was found in living wood because Zoser's death was about 5000 years ago.
	www.c14dating.com /k12.html (2794 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Libby Willard Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980), American chemist and Nobel laureate, who developed the carbon-14 dating method.
		Radiocarbon dating techniques, first developed by the American chemist Willard F. Libby and his associates at the University of Chicago in 1947, are...
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	This Month in UCLA History Archive
		Upon receiving his Nobel Prize, Professor Willard F. Libby joined an elite group of Bruins -- Ralph Bunche ’27 received the prize for peace in 1950, and Glenn Seaborg ’34 received the prize for chemistry in 1951.
		Libby accepted the Nobel Prize for Chemistry from Gustav VI Adolf, king of Sweden, becoming the first UCLA professor to be recognized with a Nobel Prize.
		Libby was recognized for developing carbon dating, which revolutionized many academic fields.
	www.uclahistoryproject.ucla.edu /Fun/ArchiveDec.asp (439 words)

	The GULLY \| U.S. \| McVeigh's Got Competition
		There is violent injustice everywhere, but only a few murderers strip away the veneer of civilization so completely, that everyone can see the brutality of their consciences.
		In the 50's, it was respected scientist Willard Libby.
		Willard Libby later won the Nobel Prize for his related research of carbon dating techniques.
	www.thegully.com /essays/US/010613mcveigh_libby.html (420 words)

	Another
		Willard F. Libby, an American chemist in the late 1940’s, developed a technique to determine the age of ancient objects by measuring the radiocarbon content in them (Berger).
		Potassium argon dating really is not important to the thesis, and the description of the two types of radiocarbon dating would fit better in the paragraph before last.
		In 1952, Willard F. Libby, the chemist who discovered radiocarbon dating, wrote about the limitations of the method he came up with and the conditions under which his figures would be valid (Kogan).
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Libby Willard Frank
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		Radiocarbon dating was developed by American chemist Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949, and it quickly became one of the most widely used...
	encarta.msn.com /Libby_Willard_Frank.html (124 words)

	This Day in Science
		On this day in 1947, chemist Willard Libby discovered that the element called carbon-14 could be used to estimate the age of objects.
		Since all living things contain carbon-14 and begin to lose the element after they die, Libby determined that measuring the amount of carbon-14 in a fossil could give its age.
		Libby received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his discovery
	www.sfscience.com /english/qtd/2000_2001/tds/3_4_2001.htm (88 words)

	Libby, Willard Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For this development he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960.
		Libby received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the faculty from 1933 to 1945.
		It measures small amounts of radioactivity from the carbon-14 in organic or carbon-containing materials and is able to identify older objects as those having less radioactivity.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/348_3.html (212 words)

	Willard Frank Libby Biography / Biography of Willard Frank Libby Main Biography
		The American chemist Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) pioneered in radiocarbon dating, for which he received the Nobel Prize.
		Willard Libby, a farmer's son, was born on December 17, 1908, at Grand Valley, Colorado.
		Libby's most notable achievement, the method of radiocarbon dating, stemmed from the 1939 discovery that cosmic rays at about 10 miles' altitude interacted with air to give a relatively high density of neutrons.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-willard-frank-libby (244 words)

	Article 14 - Radiocarbon Dating
		Libby also worked on the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
		Libby found that Carbon-14 is created in the upper atmosphere by bombardment of Nitrogen with cosmic rays.
		But Libby believed because of the continued bombardment of the earth by cosmic rays, the amount of Carbon-14 present in the atmosphere over time should remain constant.
	www.njpaleo.com /articles/article14.html (603 words)

	Willard Libby Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the start of World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University with Nobel Laurate Harold Urey.
		Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation & enrichmentr of 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-Doctorate James Arnold and graduate student Ernie Anderson, with $5,000 grant) that developed Carbon-14 dating.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/willard_libby.html (275 words)

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