Kroto, Sir Harold W

Name:
Kroto, Sir Harold W
Detailed information:
(1939– ). A British chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Robert F. Curl, Jr. and Richard E. Smalley in 1996, the 100th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The trio won for the discovery of the C₆₀ compound called buckminsterfullerene. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield.See Buckminsterfullerene; Curl, Robert F., Jr; Smalley, Richard E.