Willard Libby And The Manhattan Project

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Willard Libby was born on December 17, 1908 in Grand Valley Colorado. In 1927, Libby went to the University of California where he studied until 1933. After graduating he was appointed to Instructor of Chemistry at the University and then in the next ten years to assistant then to associate professor of chemistry. In 1941 he was awarded the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and he was elected to work at Princeton University. However things changed on December 8, when America entered into World War II, interrupting the fellowship. Libby then left to Columbia University to work on the Manhattan project, a project to do research and develop nuclear weapons. During the Manhattan project, Libby contributed in developing a method crucial