The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996
Awarded on: 1996-10-09
"for their discovery of fullerenes"
Affiliations:
- University of Sussex – Brighton, United Kingdom
Sir Harold W. Kroto
Born: 1939-10-07 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English chemist (1939–2016)
Biography
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.