“for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science”
Willard Frank Libby was an American chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science. This method became known as radiocarbon dating.
- Field
- Chemistry · Radiochemistry
- Lifespan
- 1908–1980