Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes to Curl, Kroto and Smalley for Discovering Fullerenes

Abstract

On 10 December, the 100th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the king of Sweden will award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley, “for their discovery of fullerenes.” Curl and Smalley are professors of chemistry at Rice University, in Houston, where the three made the discovery in 1985. Kroto is a Royal Society research professor at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.