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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

On 30 April, the English chemist Sir Harold Walter Krotoschiner, better known as Harry Kroto, died at age 76 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [wikipedia.org], also called Lou Gehrig’s disease.

He was a member of the Rice University research group which discovered of buckminsterfullerenes [wikipedia.org] (spherical molecules of carbon, colloquially called buckyballs), for which he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

links:

• BBC News [bbc.co.uk]
• Tallahassee Democrat [tallahassee.com]
• Royal Society of Chemistry [rsc.org]
• NPR [npr.org]
• The Guardian, letter to the editor [theguardian.com]
• The Guardian [theguardian.com]
• Times Higher Education blog [timeshighereducation.com]
• New York Times [nytimes.com]
• biography at Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
• autobiography at nobelprize.org [nobelprize.org]

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