Richard Errett Smalley | |
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 Richard Errett Smalley | |
| Born | June 6, 1943 |
| Died | October 28, 2005 (aged 62) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Hope College University of Michigan Princeton University |
| Known for | buckminsterfullerene |
| Awards | Irving Langmuir Award (1991) E. O. Lawrence Award (1991) EPS Europhysics Prize (1994) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Rice University University of Chicago |
| Thesis | The lower electronic states of 1,3,5 symtriazine (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Elliot R. Bernstein |
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.