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Willard F. Libby was an American chemist who was part of the Manhattan Project during the 1940s. He, in conjunction with his students and colleagues James R. Arnold and Ernest C. Anderson, invented the radiocarbon dating process. Libby won a Nobel Prize for the research in 1960.
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