Willard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on Dec. 17, 1908. He studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1931 and a Ph.D. in 1933. In ...

The Philosophers' Stone (See Cover) One day in 1928, at a boarding house near the University of California at Berkeley, a strapping, reddish-haired sophomore named Willard Frank Libby met two ...