Robert Curl

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American chemist (1933-2022)

United States ScientistsLived 1933 to 2022 · aged 88

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. was an American chemist who was Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.

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1998Centenary Prize

1997Carbon Medal

1996Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1992James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Humboldt Research Fellowship

Humboldt Prize

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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Harry KrotoAlso won Carbon Medal

K. Alex MüllerAlso won James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Robert H. GrubbsAlso won Humboldt Research Fellowship

Louis AgassizAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

Ben FeringaAlso won Humboldt Prize

Georg WittigAlso won Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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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.

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