1933
Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Robert Curl
American chemist (1933–2022)
- Born
- 1933
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. 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 and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.