Kroto, Sir

KROTO, SIR HAROLD W, (1939-). A British chemist who won lhe Nobel prize for chemistry along with Robert F. Curl. Jr. and Richard E. Smalley in 1996. the 100th anniversary of Allred Nobel s death. The trio won for the discovery of the e i compound called buekininsterfullerene. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Sheflield. 

Kroto, Sir Harold W. (b. 1939) English chemist who, with Richard... 

Kroto, Sir Harold (1937- ) English chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry for his joint discovery of buckminsterfullerene. lactase The enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lactose. 

Kroto, Sir Harold Walter (1939- ) British chemist. In the mid-1980s Harold Kroto heard that the American chemist... 

Professor Paul O Brien, University of Manchester, UK Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS, University of Sussex, UK Professor Harold Craighead, Cornell University, USA... 

This polymorph of carbon was only discovered in 1985 by Sir Harry Kroto at the University of Sussex while looking for carbon chains. It is made by passing an electric arc between two carbon rods in a partial atmosphere of helium. Kroto was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996, along with two American researchers (Robert F.Curl Jr. and Richard E.Smalley). The molecule has the formula Ceo and has the same shape as a soccer ball—a truncated icosahedron it takes its name from the engineer and philosopher Buckminster Fuller who discovered the architectural principle of the hollow geodesic dome that this molecule resembles (a geodesic dome was built for EXPO 67 in Montreal). The structure is depicted in Figure 6.14. 

Series Editors F. Cataldo P. Milani Volume Editors F. Cataldo S. Iglesias-Groth Foreword by Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate... 

With a foreword by Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate... 

SIR HAROLD WALTER KROTO, FRS FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY... 

Robert F. Curl, Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley... 

If organic chemistry is considered to be the chemistry of carbon , then inorganic chemistry is the chemistry of all elements except carbon. In its broadest sense, this is true, but of course there are overlaps between branches of chemistry. A topical example is the chemistry of the fuller-enes (see Section 13.4) including Ceo (see Figure 13.5) and C70 this was the subject of the award of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professors Sir Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl. An understanding of such molecules and related species called nanotubes involves studies by organic, inorganic and physical chemists as well as by physicists and materials scientists. 

Robert F. Curi Jr., Sir Haroid Kroto, Richard E. Smaiiey 1942 No prize awarded... 

The 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Robert Curl (center), Richard Smalley (right), and Sir Harold Kroto (left) for their discovery of carbon fullerenes. [AP Photo/Soren Andersson)... 

Sir Harold W. Kroto Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.)... 

Robert F. Curl Jr. (United States), Sir Harold W. Kroto (United Kingdom), and Richard E. Smalley (United States) for their discovery of fullerenes. This Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of a new form of elemental carbon in which the atoms are arranged in a closed shell to form a ball. These three scientists worked together to make this discovery, and the resulting new form of carbon was known as a fullerene. Fullerenes are generated when carbon vapor, obtained by intense pulsed laser irradiation, condenses in the presence of an inert gas. Fullerenes of a variety of sizes are now known. 

Curl, Robert F. Jr. (1933-), Richard E. Smalley (1943-2005), and Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939-) shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of fullerenes. In 1999, bnckyballs were found to exist naturally in a meteor. 

Sir Harold W. Kroto, Symmetry, Space, Stars and Cjq, Nobel Lecture, http //nobel.se, Dec 1996. 

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