Libby

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Libby is a surname most notably associated with Willard F. Libby, the American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Label Occurrences
Libby canonical 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American chemist
chemist
family name
person
surname
awardReceived John J. Carty Award
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965
surface form: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Willard Gibbs Medal
surface form: Willard Gibbs Award
contributedTo development of methods for age determination using carbon-14
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt University of California, Berkeley
employer University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
fieldOfWork chemistry
radiochemistry
hasLanguageOfOrigin English
hasNotableBearer Willard F. Libby
influenced archaeology
geology
paleoclimatology
knownFor carbon-14 dating method
development of radiocarbon dating
notableWork radiocarbon dating
surface form: Radiocarbon Dating (book)
positionHeld member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
sexOrGender male
usedInCountry Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Libby
Description of subject: Libby is a surname most notably associated with Willard F. Libby, the American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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