Timing is everything. In 1996, a committee of British experts turned down the funding request of their colleague Harold Kroto ...

The structures were called fullerenes in honor of architect Buckminster Fuller, who worked with this geometric shape. Curl died on July 3 in Houston, at 88 years old. Alfred Gilman, Nobel Prize in ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners ... Smalley, "for their discovery of fullerenes." 1995: Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, "for their work in ...

They were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery. Among the several intrinsic properties of fullerene, one of the most characteristic properties is its “anti-oxidative ...

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