Fact 1
Willard Libby was born on December 17, 1908 at Grand Valley, Colorado.
Fact 2
He graduated at the University of California at Berkeley and earned his doctorate in 1933.
Fact 3
Willard Libby moved to the Enrico Fermi Institute of Nuclear Studies, Chicago in 1945 and began an extensive study of radiocarbon.
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