Curl, Robert F., Jr

Name:
Curl, Robert F., Jr
Detailed information:
(1933– ). An American who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with Sir Harold W. Kroto 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 graduated from Rice University and received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957.See Buckminsterfullerene; Kroto, Sir Harold W; Smalley, Richard E.