Willard Libby Quotes

Willard Libby — American Scientist born on December 17, 1908, died on September 08, 1980

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960... (wikipedia)

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.