Buckyballs Co-discoverer Dies
Rice University professor Richard Smalley, who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of “buckyballs,†has died of cancer at the age of 62, the university said Friday.
Buckyballs, short for buckminsterfullerenes, are a form of carbon that has 60 atoms arranged in a hollow sphere, whose discovery in 1985 opened the way for the development of the field of nanotechnology.
Smalley, fellow Rice chemist Robert Curl and British chemist Harold Kroto shared the prize for their work on buckyballs, which were named for architect and geodesic dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Source: MSNBC.
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