The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996
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Robert F. Curl Jr.
Prize share: 1/3
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
Prize share: 1/3
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Richard E. Smalley
Prize share: 1/3
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."
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