Harold KROTO

Classe di Scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali

professore emerito di Chimica nella Florida State University; Premio Nobel per la Chimica nel 1996

Socio straniero dal 11/05/2005
Nato a Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (UK) il 07/10/1939
Deceduto il 30/04/2016

Curriculum vitae

Fellow of the Royal Society (1990), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US), President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002-2004). Longstaff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1993), Faraday Lecturer 2001 (Royal Society), Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2002), Erasmus Medal of Academia Europaea, Freeman of the City of Torino, 29 Hon Degrees.  

In 1996 received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene a new form of carbon.

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