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Good articleWillard Libby has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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October 22, 2015Good article nomineeListed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Willard Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating?
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Place of Death

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All other encyclopaedias seem to point to Loas Angeles as the place where he died. Can someone check this? I don't not want to alter Cambridge without a written (printed) high class source. --DrJunge (talk) 06:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spontaneous fission

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According to [1], Libby tried to find spontaneous fission in 1939 and found the upper limit of its partial desintegration constant to be 10-22 s-1. --217.21.43.22 (talk) 17:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 17:37, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]


First reading

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The first half of the article has a number of careless errors while the second half is much better:

That's all for now. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:59, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for reviewing the article! Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA criteria

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  • The article is well written and complies with MOS guidelines on prose and grammar, structure and layout.
  • The article uses many reliable third-party sources, and makes frequent citations to them. I do not believe it contains original research.
  • The article covers the main aspects of the subject and remains focussed.
  • The article is neutral.
  • The article is stable.
  • The single images is relevant and has a fair use rationale.