Smalley, Richard E

Name:
Smalley, Richard E
Detailed information:
(1943–2005). An American who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Robert F. Curl, Jr. and Sir Harold W. Kroto in 1996, the 100th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The trio won for the discovery of the C₆₀ compound called buckminsterfullerene. He graduated from the University of Michigan and earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University.See Buckminsterfullerene; Curl, Robert F., Jr; Kroto, Sir Harold W.