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Robert Curl



         


Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) is Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for discovery of fullerene (with Richard Smalley, also Professor of Chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, Professor at the University of Sussex).

He was born in Alice, Texas and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957.






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