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Robert F. Curl Jr.
Full Name of the recipient | Robert F. Curl Jr. |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1996 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Sir Harold W. Kroto (33.3%) Richard E. Smalley (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 | Alice, TX, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 23 August 1933 |
Age at the time of Award | 62 years |