Harold W. Kroto
1939-
German-born English physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for, the synthesis and discovery of fullerenes, a class of carbon molecules. Kroto's early inter...
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University of Sussex professor Harold Walter Kroto was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Rice University professors Robert F. Curl, Jr., and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery ...
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Harold Kroto was born on October 7, 1939, in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. Raised in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he graduated with a degree in chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1961 a...
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