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Richard E. Smalley
Full Name of the recipient | Richard E. Smalley |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1996 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Robert F. Curl Jr. (33.3%) Sir Harold W. Kroto (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discovery of fullerenes |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Rice University, Houston, TX, USA |
Place of Birth | Akron, OH, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 6 June 1943 |
Age at the time of Award | 52 years |
Place of Death | Houston, TX, United States USA |
Date of Death | 28 October 2005 |