Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes to Curl, Kroto and Smalley for Discovering Fullerenes
DEC 01, 1996
Carbon is unique in its ability to combine with other atoms in innumerable ways. But only recently have we learned that pure carbon can form itself into a dazzling proliferation of molecular shapes.
DOI: 10.1063/1.881572
On 10 December, the 100th anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, the king of Sweden will award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley, “for their discovery of fullerenes.” Curl and Smalley are professors of chemistry at Rice University, in Houston, where the three made the discovery in 1985. Kroto is a Royal Society research professor at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
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