University of Sussex professor Harold Walter Kroto was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Rice University professors Robert F. Curl, Jr., and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of a new form of the element carbon, called Carbon...

Harold Kroto was born on October 7, 1939, in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. Raised in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he graduated with a degree in chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1961 and received his Ph.D. there in 1964. His Ph.D. work...

1939- German-born English physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for, the synthesis and discovery of fullerenes, a class of carbon molecules. Kroto's early interest in chemistry led to the important discovery of carbon chains in...

Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October, 1939) is an English chemist and one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is currently on faculty at Florida State University, which he joined in 2004, and prior to that he spent a large...

Sir Harold W. Kroto, one of the corecipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, joined FSU as a Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in October. Kroto spent most of last spring as a visiting professor on...

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