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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > Willard Libby

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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]

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