The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

Robert F. Curl Jr.

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Prize share: 1/3

Sir Harold W. Kroto

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Prize share: 1/3

Richard E. Smalley

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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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