smalley

• Químico americano que, junto com Robert Curl e Harold Kroto, descobriu os fulerenos e inaugurou um novo ramo da química.

An American chemist who, along with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry.

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   Richard Errett Smalley (1943–2005), an American chemist who co-discovered fullerenes, a new form of carbon, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.

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   • Smalley's work on fullerenes revolutionized the field of nanotechnology.
   • He shared the Nobel Prize with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto.
   • The discovery of buckyballs by Smalley opened a new branch of chemistry.