# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-smalley
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:02:08.656Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-smalley"
name: "Richard Smalley"
slug: "richard-smalley"
description: "Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications."
tagline: "American chemist (1943–2005)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1943-06-06"
deathDate: "2005-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump