On 30 April, the English chemist Sir Harold Walter Krotoschiner, better known as Harry Kroto, died at age 76 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease.
He was a member of the Rice University research group which discovered buckminsterfullerenes (spherical molecules of carbon, colloquially called buckyballs), for which he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
links:
- BBC News
- Tallahassee Democrat
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- NPR
- The Guardian, letter to the editor
- The Guardian
- Times Higher Education blog
- New York Times
- biography at Wikipedia
- autobiography at nobelprize.org
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday May 22 2016, @12:18PM
Like graphene, in the research news often, although maybe not useful just yet.
http://www.cemag.us/news/2016/04/researchers-create-artificial-protein-control-assembly-buckyballs [cemag.us]
http://www.nature.com/news/buckyballs-in-space-solve-100-year-old-riddle-1.17987 [nature.com]
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=43083.php [nanowerk.com]
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