Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley (1943 - ) is a professor of
chemistry at
Rice University. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in
1996 for discovery of
fullerene (with
Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and
Harold Kroto, a professor at the
University of Sussex). He was born in
Akron, Ohio and attended
Hope College before tranfering to the
University of Michigan where he received his B.S in 1965. He received his
Ph.D from
Princeton University in 1973.
He is currently working on carbon nanotubes and associated nanotechnologies.
External Links
Brief Autobiography