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Radioactive carbon dating was discovered by:

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W. F. Libby
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G.N. Lewis
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J. Willard Gibbs
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W. Nernst
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The correct option is A W. F. Libby
In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly discovered radioactive isotope of carbon.

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