Richard Smalley
American chemist (1943-2005) · United States · Scientists · Died at 62
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Something wrong?Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.
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Gerhard ErtlBoth received EPS Europhysics Prize
Robert CurlBoth received James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Moungi BawendiBoth received Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Louis E. BrusBoth received Welch Award in Chemistry
Robert Bruce MerrifieldBoth received honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II
Lyman SpitzerBoth received Franklin MedalAbout this person
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.
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