Willard F. Libby
Nominations
Discover who nominated this laureate for the Nobel Prize, and if the laureate nominated anyone else for the prize.
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1953, by Richard Kuhn
- Physics 1956, by John Northrop
- Physics 1957, by Frits Zernike
- Physics 1960, by H Pettersson
- Physics 1960, by B Kullenberg
- Physics 1960, by A Ångström
- Chemistry 1951, by H Alyea
- Chemistry 1954, by R Herriott
- Chemistry 1954, by H Pettersson
- Chemistry 1954, by Harold Clayton Urey
- Chemistry 1955, by Wendell Latimer
- Chemistry 1955, by Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Chemistry 1955, by Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Chemistry 1955, by Charles Coryell
- Chemistry 1956, by William Giauque
- Chemistry 1956, by Harlow Shapley
- Chemistry 1956, by Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Chemistry 1956, by Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Chemistry 1957, by Klaus Clusius
- Chemistry 1957, by Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Chemistry 1957, by Joseph Edward Mayer
- Chemistry 1957, by N Sugarman
- Chemistry 1957, by Anthony Leonid Turkevich
- Chemistry 1957, by Thomas Young
- Chemistry 1957, by R Juza
- Chemistry 1958, by Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Chemistry 1958, by William Giauque
- Chemistry 1959, by William Giauque
- Chemistry 1959, by Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
- Chemistry 1959, by Klaus Clusius
- Chemistry 1960, by Harold Clayton Urey
- Chemistry 1960, by H Pettersson
- Chemistry 1960, by B Kullenberg
- Chemistry 1960, by A Ångström
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1962, nominee: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Physics 1963, nominee: Luis Walter Alvarez
- Physics 1965, nominee: Murray Gell-Mann
- Physics 1967, nominee: Murray Gell-Mann
- Physics 1970, nominee: Bernd Theodor Matthias
- Chemistry 1948, nominee: Linus Carl Pauling
- Chemistry 1952, nominee: Friedrich (Fritz) Adolf Paneth
- Chemistry 1962, nominee: Robert Burns Woodward
- Chemistry 1964, nominee: H Claassen
- Chemistry 1965, nominee: Neil Bartlett
- Chemistry 1966, nominee: Saul Winstein
- Chemistry 1967, nominee: Saul Winstein
- Chemistry 1968, nominee: Saul Winstein
- Chemistry 1969, nominee: Saul Winstein
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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