carbon 14 dating by robert moore

Willard Libby was an American Chemist, he was known for developing Carbon 14 dating. Dr. Libby was born on Dec. 17, 1908 in Grand Valley, Colorado. He got his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1933, he stayed there as a professor until 1941. Then he moved to Columbia, New York and joined Columbia University’s Division of War Research. There he worked on the atomic bomb. After the war, he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He also researched at the Institute of Nuclear Studies until 1959.In 1947; he developed the method of C14 dating using a Geiger counter.

This method could date up to 70,000 years into the past. Dr. Libby’s carbon dating technique is especially valuable to archaeologists because they can tell how old their findings are and figure out the ancestry of the fossils.

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