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.