Editing Willard Libby (section)

==Awards and honors==
Libby was an elected member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and the [[American Philosophical Society]].{{sfn|Magill|1989|pp=703–712}} In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received numerous honors and awards, including Columbia University's Chandler Medal in 1954,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Spectator]] |url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19540216-01.2.11&e=-------en-20--65004--txt-txIN-Columbia-ARTICLE---- |title=To Award Chandler Medal Tomorrow To Chicago Chemist |volume=XCVIII |issue=66 |date=February 16, 1954 |access-date=July 29, 2015 }}</ref> the Remsen Memorial Lecture Award in 1955, the Bicentennial Lecture Award from the [[City College of New York]] and the Nuclear Applications in Chemistry Award in 1956, the [[Franklin Institute]]'s [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] in 1957, the [[American Chemical Society]]'s [[Willard Gibbs Award]] in  1958, the [[Joseph Priestley Award]] from [[Dickinson College]] and the [[Albert Einstein Medal]] in 1959, the [[Geological Society of America]]'s [[Arthur L. Day Medal]] in 1961,{{sfn|Laylin|1993|pp=419–420}} the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1961,<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> the [[Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists]] in 1970,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.theaic.org/award_winners/goldmedal.html#gma20s| title= Gold Medal Award Winners|publisher= AIC|access-date = January 17, 2015}}</ref> and the Lehman Award from the [[New York Academy of Sciences]] in 1971. He was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1950.{{sfn|Laylin|1993|pp=419–420}} [[Analy High School]] library has a mural of Libby,<ref name="Mural"/> and a Sebastopol city park and a nearby highway are named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ci.sebastopol.ca.us/page/city-parks |title=City Parks |publisher=City of [[Sebastopol, California]] |access-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115134850/http://ci.sebastopol.ca.us/page/city-parks |url-status=dead }}</ref> His 1947 paper on radiocarbon dating was honored by a Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award from the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society presented to the University of Chicago in 2016.<ref name="Award">{{cite web|title= 2016 Awardees|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/CCB-2016_Awardees.php|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2016|access-date=June 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Breakthrough">{{cite web|title=Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/Citations/2016-ACS%20Rendering_Libby.pdf|website=American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences|date=2016|access-date=June 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Anderson" />