The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996
Awarded on: 1996-10-09
"for their discovery of fullerenes"
Affiliations:
- Rice University – Houston, TX, USA
Richard E. Smalley
Born: 1943-06-06 in Akron, OH, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist and Nobel laureate (1943–2005)
Biography
Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, 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.