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Harry Kroto

Chemistry

Sir Harold Walter Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for the discovery of fullerenes, a new form of carbon made of closed cage molecules such as buckminsterfullerene. The discovery opened an entirely new branch of carbon chemistry and materials science.

Facts
Birth Year
1939 1
Death Date
2016-04-30 1
Death Year
2016 1
Death Place
Lewes, United Kingdom 1
Nationality
United Kingdom 1
Birthplace
Wisbech, United Kingdom 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
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1. Harry Kroto (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2016-04-30T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2016-04-30T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom
    Q145
  • P20 (place of death): Lewes, United Kingdom
    Q246884
  • P19 (place of birth): Wisbech, United Kingdom
    Q1012031
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