Birth Name: Willard Frank Libby
Occupation: Chemist
Place Of Birth: Colorado
Date Of Birth: December 17, 1908
Date Of Death: September 8, 1980
Cause Of Death: N/A
Ethnicity: Unknown
Nationality: American
Willard Frank Libby was born on the 17th of December, 1908. He was known for being a Chemist. Physical chemist whose carbon dating method of determining age revolutionized archaeology and earned him the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also did research on tritium and found that it could be used for dating water.
Willard Frank Libby was born in Colorado. At 25 years of age he obtained his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, where he then became a lecturer and later assistant professor. Measuring the levels of a carbon isotope allowed his technique to precisely measure the age of objects tens of thousands of years old.
Willard Frank Libby was a Sagittarius and was born in the G.I. Generation.
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Willard Frank Libby is part of G.I. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. This generation experienced much of their youth during the Great Depression and rapid technological innovation such as the radio and the telephone. The initials "G.I." is military terminology referring to "Government Issue" or "General Issue".
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Willard Frank Libby was born in the Year of the Monkey.
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| REAL NAME: | Willard Frank Libby |
| NICKNAME: | Willard |
| RELIGION: | Unknown |
| AGE GENERATION: | G.I. Generation |
| BIRTH SIGN: | Sagittarius |
| BIRTH DAY: | Thursday |
| DEATH DAY: | Monday |
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Zodiac Sign: Willard Frank Libby was a Sagittarius. People of this zodiac sign like freedom, travel, philosophy, being outdoors and dislike clingy people, constrained, off-the-wall theories. The strengths of this sign are being generous, idealistic, sense of humor, while weaknesses can be to promise more than can deliver, impatient and say anything no matter how undiplomatic. The greatest overall compatibility with Sagittarius is Gemini and Aries.
Chinese Zodiac: Willard Frank Libby was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign love to make people laugh and are generally energetic and upbeat but sometimes lack self-control.
Ruling Planet: Willard Frank Libby had a ruling planet of Jupiter and has a ruling planet of Jupiter and by astrological associations Thursday is ruled by Jupiter. This planet represents abundance, prosperity and the principle of expansion. People who are born with Jupirer as the ruling planet are optimistic and have a big appetite for life.
Willard Frank Libby’s birth sign is Sagittarius and he had a ruling planet of Jupiter.
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