Willard Frank Libby, PhD
Affiliations: | Chemistry | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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carbon-14Website:
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"Willard Libby"Bio:
(1908 - 1980)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 was awarded to Willard F. Libby "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science".
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Wendell Mitchell Latimer | grad student | 1933 | UC Berkeley | |
| (Radioactivity of ordinary elements, especially samarium and neodymium method of detection) | ||||
| Harold Clayton Urey | research scientist | 1941-1946 | Columbia | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Vincent L. Pecoraro | research assistant | 1977 | UCLA |
| Samuel Ruben | grad student | 1938 | UC Berkeley |
| Don Charles DeVault | grad student | 1940 | UC Berkeley |
| Maurice S. Fox | grad student | 1951 | Chicago |
| Richard L. Wolfgang | grad student | 1951 | Chicago |
| F. Sherwood Rowland | grad student | 1952 | Chicago |
| Lloyd Currie | grad student | 1955 | Chicago (E-Tree) |
| Larry James Kevan | grad student | 1963 | UCLA |
| Randall Bertrand Murphy | grad student | 1970-1975 | UCLA |
| James R. Arnold | post-doc | Chicago |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Robert John Braidwood | collaborator | (History of History Tree) | |
| C. Rainer A. Berger | collaborator | 1963-1976 | UCLA (GeograTree) |
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| Libby WF. (2013) Toward peaceful uses of the atom Science and Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance. 148-171 |
| Libby WF. (1981) GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS AND THE ROLE OF TUNNELING THEREIN. Catalysis Reviews. 23: 615-639 |
| Runcorn SK, Libby WF, Libby LM. (1980) Superheavy-element fission tracks in iron meteorites Nature. 287: 565 |
| Libby WF. (1980) Archaeology and Radiocarbon Dating Radiocarbon. 22: 1017-1020 |
| Birchard GF, Libby WF. (1980) Soil radon concentration changes preceding and following four magnitude 4.2-4.7 earthquakes on the San Jacinto Fault in Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 85: 3100-3106 |
| Libby WF. (1979) Knowledge and regulation Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part a Environmental Science and Engineering. 14: 1-12 |
| Libby LM, Libby WF, Runcorn SK. (1979) The possibility of superheavy elements in iron meteorites Nature. 278: 613-617 |
| Libby WF. (1979) Radiocarbon dating in the future; Thirty years after inception Environment International. 2: 205-207 |
| Tornqvist EGM, Libby WF. (1979) Crystal structure, solubility, and electronic spectrum of titanium tetraiodide Inorganic Chemistry. 18: 1792-1796 |
| Libby WF, Black EF. (1978) Food irradiation: an unused weapon against hunger Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 34: 50-55 |