Richard Smalley is Professor of
Chemistry at
Rice University, awarded
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in
1996 for discovery of
fullerene (with
Robert Curl, also Professor of Chemistry at Rice, and
Harold Kroto, Professor at the
University of Sussex).
Born 1943
Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, USA
Education: B.S. degree from University of Michigan (1965)
Ph.D from Princeton (1973)
Notes: Currently working on Nanotechnology.
Brief Autobiography (http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1996/smalley-autobio.html)