How did Willard F. Libby grow up and where did he grow up as a kid?
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Willard F. Libby – Biography\nWillard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on 17th December, 1908, to Ora Edward Libby and his wife Eva May (née Rivers).\n\nHe attended grammar and high schools near Sebastopol, California, between 1913 and 1926, moving to the University of California at Berkeley in 1927, where he studied till 1933, taking his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1931 and 1933 respectively. He was appointed Instructor in the Department of Chemistry at California University (Berkeley) in 1933 and during the next ten years was promoted successively to Assistant and then Associate Professor of Chemistry. He was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1941 and elected to work at Princeton University, but on 8th December, 1941, this Fellowship was interrupted for war work on America's entry into World War II, and Libby went to Columbia University on the Manhattan District Project, on leave from the Department of Chemistry, California University, till 1945.\n\nAt the end of the war, in 1945, Libby accepted the post of Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nuclear Studies (now the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies) of Chicago University, remaining there till his appointment by President Eisenhower on 1st October, 1954, as a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.\n\nThis appointment was renewed by the President for a further five-year term on 19th June, 1956, but Libby resigned from it on 30th June, 1959, to become Professor of Chemistry in the University of California at Los Angeles, being appointed Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics on 1st January, 1962.\n\nLibby has performed a wide range of scientific advisory and technical consultant work with industrial firms associated with the Institute for Nuclear Studies, as well as with defence departments, scientific organizations and universities. From 1945 to 1952 he was a Member of the Committee of Senior Reviewers of the Atomic Energy Commission; from 1950 to 1954 he was a Member of the Commission's General Advisory Committee and was re-appointed to this Committee by President Eisenhower in June, 1960. He has been a Member of the Plowshare Advisory Committee since 1959; a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in 1941, 1951 and 1959-1962; a Member of the Advisory Board of the Guggenheim Memorial Founclation, being re-elected in May, 1960, for a further term of four years; a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institute of Washington Geophysical Laboratory from 1954 to 1959. He has served as Consultant to the Office of Civil and Defence Mobilization (1959-1961) and also as a Member of the Advisory Council to the Coordinator of Atomic Activities of the State of California since 1959. He is, since 1963, Director of the Douglas Aircraft Company, and Member of the National Science Foundation's General Commission on Science, the Federal Government and the Academic Institution.\n\nLibby is a Physical Chemist, and specialist in radiochemistry, particularly hot atom chemistry, tracer techniques, and isotope tracer work. He became well-known at Chicago University for his work on natural carbon-14 (radiocarbon) and its use in dating archaeological artifacts, and natural tritium, and its use in hydrology and geophysics.\n\nBesides the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1960, he received other distinctions, including the Research Corporation Award for 1951 for the radiocarbon dating technique; the Chandler Medal of Columbia University for outstanding achievement in the field of chemistry (1954); the American Chemical Society Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry (1956); the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1957); the American Chemical Society's Willard Gibbs Medal Award (1958); the Albert Einstein Medal Award (1959); the Day Medal of the Geological Society of America (1961).\n\nLibby's book, Radiocarbon Dating, was published by the University of Chicago Pr
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Jean Fairbanks Merrill was born January 27, 1923, in Rochester, New York. She and her two younger sisters enjoyed the freedom of country life when the family moved from Rochester to the apple and dairy farm which became their childhood home. Their entertainment was spontaneous and self-initiated. Sitting with her sisters at their mother's knee as she read aloud to them in the evenings, Merrill developed a love for literature. \n\nMerrill received a bachelor's degree in English and drama from Allegheny College and earned a master's degree in English from Wellesley College. Her formal... \n\nThe above is a free excerpt. Get total access to these eNotes with the: eNotes Literature Pass
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, by Truman Capote details the 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas; his wife, Bonnie; his 16-year-old daughter, Nancy; and his 15-year-old son, Kenyon, and the aftermath. Capote said that he had created a new type of book, the non-fiction novel, by applying traditional literary conventions to crime reporting. Critics debate whether Capote invented this type of writing.
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Ben Carson's first book is his autobiography: "Gifted Hands. Think Big." The information about his high school years would probably be in it.\n\nAll I know is that he grew up in extreme poverty in Detroit.
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Charles Curtis.  He was from Kansas.  He served for all of Hoover' term (1929-1933).  He basically did nothing.
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he preserved the setting in space from his childhood (the Mississippi)\nhe wrote a sort of a buildungs roman (Tom S) that reflected some of his childhood events
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Apparently he grew up, lost weight, became an Entertainment lawyer and works in Los Angles.  There are more details and a picture of him (and the goonies cast) circa 2001 in the link below.
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a little from column a and a littlefrom column b. this has been a source of debate for 100 years. nature or nurture. all those things you said contribute as well as how the person was raised.
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I am sure the dictionary will give a much politer version than mine.   My definition of a liberal is a f'n idiot.    And here are some characteristics of the common, everyday, generic libby:\n\n1.  Hates America\n2.  Criticizes Bush, but offers no plan or better ideas\n3.  Some are Socialist, while others are Communists disguised as Democrats.\n4.  Believe in high taxes, and big government\n5.  Socialized medicine\n6.  Support over regulation \n7.  Pro abortion\n8   Anti Semetic\n9.  Against war so much they would offer no defense to our nation. Period.\n10. Claim to be "tolerant" but are only tolerant to those that agree with them\n11. Pro gay rights/marraige\n12.  Atheist\n\nThere are more,  but thats enough for now.
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libby god is in hearts not chruches or mosques.\n\nyou are old enough to know that
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The Early Years\nhttp://www.historycentral.com/Bio/presidents/taft.html\nhttp://www.williamhowardtaft.org/\n\nI hope these help.
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Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 at Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, German Empire, about 100 km east of Stuttgart. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a featherbed salesman who later ran an electrochemical works, and Pauline, whose maiden name was Koch. They were married in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. The family was Jewish (non-observant); Albert attended a Catholic elementary school and, at the insistence of his mother, was given violin lessons. Though he initially disliked (and eventually discontinued) the lessons, he would later take great solace in Mozart's violin sonatas.
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Grover Cleveland, barely in the past century, did not attend college. Harry Truman was the last president to not have earned any higher education degree, but did attend school.
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I lived there in first grade, then moved to Portland, Oregon.  I went back for visits every summer to see my aunt.  She recently moved to Boise, Idaho to live near my family and she misses the hot weather there.
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The Inventor's Early Life. The son of former slaves, Garrett A. Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877. His early childhood was spent attending school and working on the family farm with his brothers and sisters. While still a teenager, he left Kentucky and moved north to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of opportunity.
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If you mean where did he graduate from, then the answer is Yale University.  Otherwise, I'm not sure what your question means.
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Roy Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Slye.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers