Collected Papers; Volume VII, Talking to People
Santa Monica, CA and Los Angeles, CA: Geo Science Analytical, Inc. and University of California at Los Angeles, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Various paginations (approximately 1 inch thick). Footnotes. Figures. Tables. References. Ex-Los Alamos National Laboratory library with usual library markings. This collection of W. F. Libby's papers contains those on Talking to People. This includes a two page entry entitled Recollections of a Long and Fruitful Friendship by Edward Teller. The contents of this volume are talks that existed as typed, double-spaced papers in Bill Libby's files, but for the most part were no published in the open literature. A few of the papers are exceedingly technical but are included here because Dr. Libby withheld them from publication; no doubt intending to rethink them if more information should become available. Many of the papers are talks given at every lever, e.g. high schools, colleges, business organizations, journalists, and various groups. All were written between 1960 and 1980. Among the topics covered are: The Role of the Chemist in Atomic Power, The Citizen and the Atom, Nobel Award Acceptance Speech, Radiocarbon Dating, Civil Defense, Tritium Geophysics, Atomic Armaments, Radioactive Fallout, Fallout Shelter, The Atomic Space Ship, Nuclear Energy, Plowshare, Space Science, Gasbuggy Site, Solar Wind, Venus Orbiters, Climate History, and Spent Oil Fields. Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and paleontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. A 1931 chemistry graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received his doctorate in 1933, he studied radioactive elements and developed sensitive Geiger counters to measure weak natural and artificial radioactivity. During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project's Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Laboratories at Columbia University, developing the gaseous diffusion process for uranium enrichment. After the war, Libby accepted professorship at the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies, where he developed the technique for dating organic compounds using carbon-14. He also discovered that tritium similarly could be used for dating water, and therefore wine. In 1950, he became a member of the General Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He was appointed a commissioner in 1954, becoming its sole scientist. He sided with Edward Teller on pursuing a crash program to develop the hydrogen bomb, participated in the Atoms for Peace program, and defended the administration's atmospheric nuclear testing. Libby resigned from the AEC in 1959 to become Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a position he held until his retirement in 1976. In 1962, he became the Director of the University of California statewide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). Condition: Good.
Keywords: Nobel Laureate, Acceptance Speech, Radiocarbon Dating, Civil Defense, Tritium Geophysics, Atomic Armaments, Radioactive Fallout, Fallout Shelter, The Atomic Space Ship, Nuclear Energy, Plowshare, Space Science, Gasbuggy Site, Solar Wind, Venus Orbite
ISBN: 0941054071
[Book #84115]
Price: $200.00