Harry Kroto

Sir
Harry Kroto
Kroto in 2010
Born
Harold Walter Krotoschiner

(1939-10-07)7 October 1939
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
Died30 April 2016(2016-04-30) (aged 76)
Lewes, East Sussex, England
EducationBolton School
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
Known forBuckminsterfullerene
Spouse
Margaret Henrietta Hunter
(m. 1963)
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Institutions
ThesisThe spectra of unstable molecules under high resolution (1964)
Doctoral studentsPerdita Barran[1]
Websitekroto.info

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.

  1. ^ 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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  3. ^ Legon, Anthony C. (2017). "Sir Harold Walter Kroto. 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 413–442. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0003. hdl:1983/20b6819b-46c4-4dc3-aa2b-dccedae2486e. ISSN 0080-4606.
  4. ^ 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.