Richard Smalley
Chemist, Academic
1943 – 2005
Who was Richard Smalley?
Richard Errett Smalley was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. 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, and was a leading advocate of nanotechnology and its many applications, including its use in creating strong but lightweight materials as well as its potential to fight cancer.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1943
Akron - Also known as
- Richard Errett Smalley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, Princeton
( - 1973) - Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan
( - 1965) - Princeton University
- University of Chicago
- Hope College
- Doctorate, Princeton
- Employment
- Rice University
- Lived in
- Akron
- Died
- Oct 28, 2005
Houston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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