The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
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Willard Frank Libby
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 was awarded to Willard Frank Libby "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"
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