
Robert Curl
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.
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Robert Curl’s ‘buckyball’ Nobel prize medal sold at auction for more than double reserve price
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Nobel winner Robert Curl discusses how one lives gracefully with the world’s most prestigious prize - University of California, Berkeley