Robert Curl
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist. He was a professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University.[1] He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene.
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Robert Curl | |
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Born | (1933-08-23)August 23, 1933 Alice, Texas, U.S. |
Died | July 3, 2022(2022-07-03) (aged 88) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Alma mater | Rice Institute, BS; University of California, Berkeley, PhD |
Known for | The discovery of fullerenes |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Cross-cultural ambassador at Sorbonne University UNESCO Club |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | Rice University, Harvard University |
Thesis | Some spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties of molecules (1957) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Pitzer |
Doctoral students | Lihong V. Wang James L. Kinsey |
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Curl died in Houston, Texas on July 3, 2022, at the age of 88.[2]