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Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.
Biographical. I was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
Oct 28, 2005 · Richard E. Smalley. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996. Born: 6 June 1943, Akron, OH, USA. Died: 28 October 2005, Houston, TX, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of fullerenes” Prize share: 1/3. Work. Carbon is an element that can assume a number of different forms.
Jun 2, 2024 · Richard E. Smalley was an American chemist and physicist, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Robert F. Curl, Jr., and Sir Harold W. Kroto for their joint discovery of carbon-60 (C60, or buckminsterfullerene) and the fullerenes.
Dec 21, 2005 · Chemist and champion of nanotechnology. Towards the end of his life, Richard Smalley had begun to say, “If it ain't tubes, we don't do it”.
With their discovery of buckminsterfullerene in 1985, Richard E. Smalley (1943–2005), Robert F. Curl (b. 1933), and Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016) furthered progress to the long-held objective of molecular-scale electronics and other nanotechnologies.
Richard Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chem-istry for the discovery of the carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes. At that point he had already realized that developments in imaging science would enable the growth of a major new field of basic and applied research called nanotechnology.
Oct 31, 2005 · Eminent nanotechnologist Richard Smalley has died in Houston in the US at the age of 62. Smalley received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene molecules, or buckyballs, together with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto.
Nov 10, 2005 · Richard Smalley, champion of nanotechnology, died on October 28th, aged 62. Nov 10th 2005 |. Share. Rice University. AMONG Nobel laureates, Richard Smalley was unusual. He discovered...
Oct 30, 2005 · Richard Smalley, a chemistry professor at Rice University in Texas who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering a new spherical form of carbon and championed the potential of nanotechnology to create...
