The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
Awarded on: 1960-11-03
"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Willard Frank Libby
Born: 1908-12-17 in Grand Valley, CO, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physical chemist (1908–1980)
Biography
Willard Frank Libby 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.