Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of 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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Full Name
Richard Errett Smalley
Date of Birth
June 6th, 1943
Age
82
Birth Place
United States of America, Ohio
Date of Death
October 28th, 2005
Died Aged
62
Star Sign
Gemini
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