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All other encyclopaedias seem to point to Loas Angeles as the place where he died. Can someone check this? I don't not want to alter Cambridge without a written (printed) high class source. --DrJunge (talk) 06:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
According to [1], Libby tried to find spontaneous fission in 1939 and found the upper limit of its partial desintegration constant to be 10-22 s-1. --217.21.43.22 (talk) 17:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I propose to undertake this review and will read through the article in detail shortly. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:37, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
First reading
The first half of the article has a number of careless errors while the second half is much better:
"He sided with Edward Teller on pursuing a crash program to develop the hydrogen bomb, help the Atoms for Peace program, and defended the administration's atmospheric nuclear testing." - the tenses in this sentence are a bit muddled.
"When he was five, Libby's parents moved to the Santa Rosa, California. Libby began his education in a two-room Colorado schoolhouse." - These two sentences need to be reversed to make them chronological.
"and the fissile uranium-235 made up only one-hundred and fortieth of natural uranium." - Couldn't you express this as a percentage, or say "less than one percent"?
Y Done. I thought one part in 140 was easier for people to grasp than 0.7% Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
" a heavier one. In fact," - sentence structure.
Y Joined sentences together. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"In addition to the developing a suitable barrier," - typo.
He was working on using gaseous diffusion and finding problems. It is not clear to me whether he was successful in the end, or whether the isotopes were eventually separated by a quite different method, in a new process developed by Kellex.
Y He was successful in the end, but the the isotopes were eventually separated by a quite different method, in a new process developed by Kellex Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"a professorship in Chemistry Department at the " - typo.
Thanks for reviewing the article! Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
GA criteria
The article is well written and complies with MOS guidelines on prose and grammar, structure and layout.
The article uses many reliable third-party sources, and makes frequent citations to them. I do not believe it contains original research.
The article covers the main aspects of the subject and remains focussed.
The article is neutral.
The article is stable.
The single images is relevant and has a fair use rationale.
Final assessment - I am satisfied with the alterations made and believe this article meets the GA criteria.Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:29, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]