Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who held the Gene and Norman Hackerman professorship in Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
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Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943, October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.
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He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1990, and the American Academy of Ar
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