Robert Curl
(1933-2022)
American chemist
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 - July 3, 2022) is an American University Professor Emeritus, Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus, and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.
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23 August 1933 Alice, Texas, United States
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| Died |
5 July 2022 (aged 88)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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