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Willard Libby
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- Willard Frank Libby was an American chemist whose technique of carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) dating provided an extremely valuable tool for archaeologists, anthropologists, and earth scientists. For this development, he was honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Libby, Willard (1908–1980)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Willard_Libby
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