Robert Curl | |
|---|---|
| Robert Floyd Curl Jr. | |
 Curl in 2009 | |
| Born | August 23, 1933 Alice, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | July 3, 2022 (aged 88) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Rice Institute, BA; University of California, Berkeley, PhD |
| Known for | The discovery of fullerenes |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Cross-cultural ambassador at Sorbonne University UNESCO Club |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Rice University, Harvard University |
| Thesis | Some spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties of molecules (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Pitzer |
| Doctoral students | Lihong V. Wang James L. Kinsey |
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.[1] He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.
- ^ "Robert F. Curl". Department of Chemistry, Rice University. Retrieved July 19, 2016.