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Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2015.10 |
Title |
Willard Libby (1908-1980) Nobel Laureate in Chemistry |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
A physical chemist, Willard Libby spent the 1930s building geiger counters and teaching. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Manhattan Project at Columbia University and commuted from his home at 218 Broad Avenue in Leonia. Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation and enrichment of uranium-235 which was used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 1957 while Atomic Energy Commissioner, Libby appeared before a Senate committee and told the lawmakers that the dispute over possible health hazards from nuclear weapons fallout is largely political and sociological rather than scientific. In 1960 Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Carbon-14 dating method which revolutionized archaeology. Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1933. |
Date |
1957 |
People |
Libby,Willard |
Subjects |
People Scientists Nobel Prize Laureates |
Collection |
Notable Leonians File |
Source |
Archivist |