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| complete name: |
Richard Errett Smalley |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
1996 |
| together with: |
Robert Curl |
| together with: |
Harry Kroto |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 was awarded jointly to Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| birth name: |
Richard Errett Smalley |
| given name: |
Richard |
| family name: |
Smalley |
| occupation: |
scientist |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| field of work: |
organic chemistry |
| work location: |
Rice University, 6100 S Main, Houston, TX, 77005-1827, United States of America |
| description: |
Richard Errett Smalley was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. 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. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1996/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1943 |
| date death: |
2005 |
| usual name: |
Richard Smalley |
