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What did Willard Frank Libby win the Nobel Prize for?

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Libby was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development (c.1946) of radioactive carbon-14 dating . He was the recipient of several other prizes, including the 1959 Albert Einstein award.

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