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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 24, 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.
Oct 28, 2005 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. 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.
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”.
Richard E. Smalley, University Professor and professor of chemistry, physics, and astronomy at Rice University, Houston, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes. Much of Smalley's current research focuses on the chemistry, physics, and potential applications of carbon nanotubes.
Richard Smalley graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1965 and then spent 4 years working in industry as a research chemist. In 1969 he moved to Princeton to study for a PhD in the Department of Chemistry, working with Elliot R. Bernstein.
Richard E. Smalley's Curriculum Vitae; 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announcement and background; Photographs. Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive: Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors "Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes" by M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, and P. Eklund; USB Buckyball Homepage - Research on Fullerenes (submitted by Dr. Michael C. Martin)
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.
Dec 23, 2005 · Richard Errett Smalley, who died on 28 October 2005 after a 7-year fight with cancer, unselfishly used his stature and wisdom to inspire a worldwide nanotechnology revolution. His breakthroughs, his inexhaustible enthusiasm for exciting young people about science, and his awakening the world to possible nanotech solutions to the energy crisis ...
