On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Willard F. Libby (1908--1980), who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archæology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science, this article recounts his life and achievements with an emphasis on his method of radiocarbon dating.
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