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Willard Libby

Also known as Willard F. Libby, Willard Frank Libby

American physical chemist

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Willard Libby was an American physical chemist who made significant contributions to chemistry through his scientific work. Without additional context about his specific achievements, I cannot provide an accurate overview of why his work matters to a general audience.

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Born: 1908-12-17
Died: 1980-09-08
Works: 13

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Some North and South American radiocarbon dates for archaeological and geological materials
Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating
Papers in Geophysics Honoring Louis Byrne Slichter.
The Frontiers of Knowledge

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1908
Active to: 1980

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5 total works indexed

Ab initio effective core potentials for molecular calculations. Potentials for K to Au including the outermost core orbitals
· 1985 · cited 14,897x
Ab initio effective core potentials for molecular calculations. Potentials for the transition metal atoms Sc to Hg
· 1985 · cited 13,096x
Ab initio effective core potentials for molecular calculations. Potentials for main group elements Na to Bi
· 1985 · cited 9,669x
Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease
· 2017 · cited 8,350x
Inflammation in atherosclerosis
· 2002 · cited 6,689x

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date of birth: 1908-12-17
date of death: 1980-09-08
name in native language: Willard Frank Libby
Commons category: Willard Libby

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Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) 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.

A 1931 chemistry graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received his doctorate in 1933, he studied radioactive elements and developed sensitive Geiger counters to measure weak natural and artificial radioactivity. During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project's Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Laboratories at Columbia University, developing the gaseous diffusion process for uranium enrichment.