Robert Curl
American chemist (1933-2022) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 88
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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2022Died3 July 20221998Centenary PrizeAward1997Carbon MedalAward1996Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward1992James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsAward1933Born23 August 1933
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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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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1933 to 2022 · aged 88
