Quotes by Willard Libby

About Willard Libby:

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.
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We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Willard Libby

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Willard Libby

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

Willard Libby

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Willard Libby

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard Libby

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

Willard Libby

Author Bio

  • NameWillard Libby
  • DescriptionAmerican physical chemist
  • AliasesWillard F. Libby; Willard Frank Libby
  • BornDecember 17, 1908
  • DiedSeptember 8, 1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionChemist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Nobel Prize In Chemistry; Arthur L. Day Medal; Elliott Cresson Medal; Willard Gibbs Award