Research for P4 Data Task

... Physics Research - P4 Source Number Source Link Question Number 1 http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/libby_willard.html 1 2 http://www.ausetute.com.au/carbon14.html 2 3 http://einstein.byu.edu/~masong/HTMstuff/C24A1.html 3 4 http://www.religioustolerance.org/c14dat2.htm Source 1 Willard Frank Libby developed the carbon-14 dating method that was used in dating the Turin Shroud. 1908 - 1980. Willard Libby was an American Chemist, best known for his development carbon 14 techniques. Libby was born Dec. 17, 1908 in Grand Valley, Colorado. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1933, where he stayed on as an Instructor until 1941. At this time, he moved to Columbia, New York and joined Columbia University's Division of War Research to work on the development of the atomic bomb. After the war, he served as a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He also conducted research there at the Institute of Nuclear Studies until 1959. Libby then found himself back at the University of California as Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. He served in that capacity

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