Richard E. Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon—the carbon 60 molecule—known today as "buckyballs" or fullerenes. The discovery of the carbon 60 molecule opened a new field of research called Nanotechnology.
Dr. Richard Smalley was a distinguished Professor of chemistry and of physics at Rice University, and founding director of Rice University's Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory.
Professor Smalley died on October 28, 2005 after a long battle with leukemia.
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