Awards & Winners

Willard Libby

Date of Birth 17-December-1908
Place of Birth Grand Valley
(Grand County, 84540)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Willard Frank Libby, Willard F. Libby
Profession Chemist
Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

Awards by Willard Libby

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1960


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science)