Sir Harry Kroto | |
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 Kroto in 2010 | |
| Born | Harold Walter Krotoschiner 7 October 1939 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Died | 30 April 2016 (aged 76) Lewes, East Sussex, England |
| Education | Bolton School |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
| Known for | Buckminsterfullerene |
| Spouse |
Margaret Henrietta Hunter
(m. 1963) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The spectra of unstable molecules under high resolution (1964) |
| Doctoral students | Perdita Barran[1] |
| Website | kroto |
Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS[2][3] (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
Kroto ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, which he joined in 2004. Prior to this, he spent approximately 40 years at the University of Sussex.[4]
Kroto promoted science education and was a critic of religious faith.
- ^ Barran, Perdita Elizabeth (1998). Studies of refractory clusters produced from a pulsed arc source. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 53686642. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.244325. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
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- ^ Heath, James R.; Curl, Robert F. (2016). "Harry Kroto (1939–2016) Discoverer of new forms of carbon". Nature. 533 (7604): 470. Bibcode:2016Natur.533..470H. doi:10.1038/533470a. PMID 27225112.