Harry Kroto - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1996
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Harry Kroto

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1996
for their discovery of fullerenes
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
10/7/1939
place of birth
Wisbech
date of death
4/30/2016
place of death
Lewes
Lived
76 years
member of
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1992
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/11/2005
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2006
  • Royal Society of London
position held
  • president of the Royal Society of Chemistry
    • start time: 2002
    • end time: 2004
doctoral student
  • Mauricio Terrones
occupation
  • university teacher
  • scientist
  • chemist
employer
  • University of Sussex
  • University of Florida
  • Florida State University
educated at
  • University of Sheffield
  • Bolton School
field of work
  • molecular spectroscopy
  • chemistry
  • fullerene
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