# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-curl
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:22.130Z

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name: "Robert Curl"
slug: "robert-curl"
description: "Robert Floyd Curl Jr. was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex."
tagline: "American chemist (1933–2022)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-08-23"
deathDate: "2022-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump