Richard Errett Smalley
1943-
American chemist who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of fullerenes, which, along with diamond and graphite, are the third form of pure carbon. Full...
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American scientist Richard E. Smalley is best known as one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with fellow Rice University professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., and Briton Harold W. K...
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Richard E. Smalley was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943. Smalley's mother, Esther Virginia Rhoads, was from a furniture manufacturing family. Smalley credits his mother with sparking his interest ...
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