December 17, 1908 - Birth of Willard Frank Libby, Nobel Prize for carbon-14 dating

Doctor in Chemistry from the University of Berkeley, he was a professor, who worked on the Manhattan Project developing the procedure for the separation and enrichment of uranium-235 isotopes and developing the carbon-14 dating technique that is widely used in archaeology, physical anthropology, and geology. For the latter, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

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