The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.

 

 
  Photo: P. S. Howell, Rice University

Prof Robert F. Curl Jr
Rice University, Houston
TX, USA

Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates

Prof Sir Harold W. Kroto
University of Sussex
Brighton, England

Photo: P. S. Howell, Rice University

Prof Richard E. Smalley
Rice University, Houston
TX, USA

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