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Discovering the Fullerenes (Nobel Lecture)†
Prof. Richard E. Smalley,
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Prof. Richard E. Smalley
Center of Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice Quantum Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Physics Rice University Houston TX 77005 (USA) Fax: Int. code +(713)285-5155
Center of Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice Quantum Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Physics Rice University Houston TX 77005 (USA) Fax: Int. code +(713)285-5155Search for more papers by this authorProf. Richard E. Smalley,
Corresponding Author
Prof. Richard E. Smalley
Center of Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice Quantum Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Physics Rice University Houston TX 77005 (USA) Fax: Int. code +(713)285-5155
Center of Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice Quantum Institute, Departments of Chemistry and Physics Rice University Houston TX 77005 (USA) Fax: Int. code +(713)285-5155Search for more papers by this author†
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1997. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture.
Abstract
Bucky get the prize—eleven years after the discovery of C60 in 1985, the realization that carbon makes this truncated isosahedral molecule, and larger geodesic cages, all by itself is honored with the Nobel Prize. Only with the development of laser-vaporization cluster beam methods did the particular signification of C60 become apparent. Indeed the discovery process with respect to fullerenes and the properties of carbon is far from being complete.
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