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...Four: George Beadle (July 14, 1958), Willard Libby (Aug. 15, 1955), Edward Teller (Nov. 18, 1957), James Van Allen...
...WILLARD R. CLARK La Grange...
...scientists are the only people who are not bored, the only adventurers of modern times, the real explorers?the fortunate ones. ?1960 Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby...
...everybody else was bored in 1960, and there were some adventurers?bearing spears in the Congo or banging shoes at the U.N.?who could hardly be called scientific. But the world of 1960 will readily agree with Chemist Willard Libby that U.S. scientists and their colleagues in other free lands are indeed the true 20th century adventurers, the explorers of the unknown, the real intellectuals of the day, the leaders of mankind's greatest inquiry into the mysteries of matter, of the earth, the universe, and of life itself. Their work shapes the life of every human presently inhabiting...
...Willard Frank Libby, 52, sometimes seems to be a finicky, formal sort of man who wears a business suit in the laboratory, suffers a necktie in the warmest weather. But he gives himself away with his missionary zeal. To Chemist Libby, recruiting bright young newcomers to his calling is every bit as important as his own contributions. His radioactive carbon-14 dating technique brought him his well-deserved Nobel Prize; his five-year service on the Atomic Energy Commission was an invaluable bridge between the possibilities of science and the problems of politics. In Washington, Libby discovered that there...