Kroto, Sir Harold

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... 

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

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

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. 

Without question, our modem nanotechnology revolution was catalyzed by the mid-1980s discovery of carbon nanoclusters known as fullerenes e.g., Cgo, C70, Cg4, The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, and Sir Harold Kroto for this discovery, which focused the worldwide spotlight on unique nanoscale materials and their possible applications. To date, the... 

Since the remarkable discovery of fullerenes in 1985 (Kroto et al. 1985), these new carbon aUotropes have received significant attention from the scientific community and stiU exhibit vast interest (Lu and Chen 2005 Thilgen and Diederich 2006). The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Sir Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl, and the late Richard E. SmaUey for their discovery of fuUerenes. Essentially, the most prominent representative of the fullerene family is Ceo. In early 1990, a method was discovered for producing macroscopic amounts of this fascinating molecule (Kratschmer et al. 1990). This breakthrough allowed scientists to explore the properties of Ceo and understand its chemistry. Kratschmer et al. characterized the fullerene Ceo using mass spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, electron diffraction, and X-ray diffraction (Kratschmer et al. 1990). Both Kroto et al. (1985) and Kratschmer et al. (1990), by means of mass spectroscopy, also characterized the fullerene Cyo. Pure Ceo and C70 fullerenes were isolated and separated by Kroto and coworkers (Taylor et al. 1990). The stable fullerenes of Ceo... 

A plenary session was held and included overview talks by scientists from the U.S. Government, national laboratories, and universities on some key areas of research in materials chemistry. Four of these six plenary talks appear as chapters in this volume, including a chapter by Sir Harold W. Kroto, who recently shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the discovery of fiillerenes. 

For example, although the story of carbon is as old as mankind itself, it is not fully told, and new chapters — sometimes new volumes -- are written from time to time. We appear to be in a period of a rapidly evolving carbon science right now. Not only is diamond film growth by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) an active area of research and development, but the discovery of fullerenes - the third allotrope of carbon - has opened up a whole new field of science with vast potential for both basic knowledge and applications. The paper that follows, authored by Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, discusses the profound implications of the discovery of C q on the way we think about the structure of graphite and other layered materials. Because an important branch of chemistry — organic chemistry — deals with carbon and its compounds, carbon as a material quite naturally arouses the interests of chemists, particularly of materials chemists. 

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

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